Cheapened and neutralized: why the FBI destroyed actress Jean Seberg’s life

Dale M. Brumfield
Lessons from History
11 min readFeb 21, 2019

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Actress Jean Seberg, late 1960s.

In 1956, the conspiracy-obsessed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover originated on his own, and with no higher authority, the first incarnation of a counterintelligence program called COINTELPRO, to “infiltrate, penetrate…

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Dale M. Brumfield
Lessons from History

Anti-death penalty advocate, cultural archaeologist, “American Grotesk” historyteller and author of 12 books. More at www.dalebrumfield.net.