I mean, how do would this present the FBI action against social movement groups in the 1970s? The actions against the black panthers, for instance, were secret

I mean, how do would this present the FBI action against social movement groups in the 1970s? The actions against the black panthers, for instance, were secret and harmful to the group and the question of the legal status of those actions is open. The same could be said with regards the US treatment of the American Indian Movement, or many, many actions taken against labor organizers in the late 19th C. Much could be said of about anything the CIA has done in its history. IMO, it's more useful to just open up the term to any organization that acts in concert, because then a lot of the fuzzy distinctions between, say a government that isn't acting in the direct interests of its entire population and a criminal cartel. Those are clearly different kinds of organizations, but "harmful" and "legal" become questionable in many situations.