COINTELPRO Full Disclosure Act

This bill would require federal offices to publicly release their records about COINTELPRO, an FBI counterintelligence program targeting domestic political groups, within 6 months, unless release would cause certain harms such as damage to national security or invasion of privacy. Records would be copied to a new COINTELPRO Records Collection at the National Archives and made available for public inspection. The bill would create a five-member independent COINTELPRO Records Review Board, appointed by the President with Senate approval, to review withheld records, with subpoena power and a term of up to 4 years plus one possible extra year. Remaining withheld records would have to be released within 25 years unless an exemption is approved. The bill would also rename the J. Edgar Hoover Federal Building in Washington, DC, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Building.

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Sponsors

• Summer L. Lee Democrat sponsor
• 3 cosponsors