The bill, H. R. 9973, titled the “COINTELPRO Full Disclosure Act,” proposes the public release of records related to COINTELPRO, a covert FBI program aimed at surveilling and disrupting domestic organizations from 1956. It seeks to establish a COINTELPRO Records Collection at...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to make old secret FBI papers about a program called COINTELPRO available for everyone to see, keep them safe in a big library, and have a special team to check these papers before they are shared. It also wants to change the name of the FBI's main building.