The Nation - News from Jan. 20, 1987

Civil rights workers and anti-war activists, who were harassed more than a decade ago by the FBI, gathered in Washington, D.C., to divide $46,000 awarded them after an 11-year legal battle. Four individuals and a peace organization from the Washington, D.C., area split the money presented by the Justice Department in settlement of a suit filed in 1976 against the FBI’s Cointelpro program, a counterintelligence operation set up to disrupt anti-war and civil rights groups in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The complaints ranged from break-ins to harassment of a biracial couple.