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FBI Harassed Senator Gore Sr.

New documents released from the FBI show that agency used its powers to monitor and spread rumors about Senator Albert Gore, Sr.

Hoover's FBI, Taking Aim At Al Gore Sr. Years-Long Vendetta Waged Over Senator's Hostility, Washington Post, August 23, 2001.
The COINTELPRO Papers, Documents From the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States by Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall.