The program showed the "bad people" were already in charge and using covert method to remove their enemies. Cointel in particular was revealed by the efforts of

The program showed the "bad people" were already in charge and using covert method to remove their enemies. Cointel in particular was revealed by the efforts of radicals as a one-time thing. There's no reason to think that programs of it's sort ever stopped (though I'd guess levels of activity naturally waxed and waned, there haven't been the level of assassinations we saw in 60s but all probably just involves a different emphasis within the programs). The main thing is that the existence of a large secret agencies maintaining whatever secrets they deem necessary makes a mockery of democracy in and of itself (beyond all the other things that do this in the US).