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That time the FBI conspired to get George Foreman an award for boxing
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The FBI tried to get George Foreman an additional award for his patriotism after winning an Olympic gold medal in 1968 .
The Bureau 's interest in Foreman came amidst COINTELPRO, a paranoid Cold War counterintelligence program that treated everyone from draft resisters and Martin Luther King , Jr. to the Ku Klux Klan as vectors for foreign subversion.
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