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CIA stands for Central Intelligence Agency. Their role is to collect, analyze, and evaluate, foreign intelligence, and perform covert actions.
The first major rural protest was the Patrons of Husbandry, which was founded in 1867 and had 1.5 million members by 1875. Known as the Granger Movement, these embattled farmers formed buying and selling cooperatives and demanded state regulation of railroad rates and grain elevator fees.
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Many of the accused had their reputations ruined and in some cases would be blacklisted from being able to get new jobs, as well as being harassed by anti-Communist groups and individuals.
