The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars

ISBN: 0896083594

Author: Churchill, Ward

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Readers anxious about civil liberties' future under G.W. Bush can trace the lineage of political repression meted out by the FBI in the last half century. The original FBI memos reproduced here expose the Bureau's secret, systematic & sometimes savage sabotage of progressive political activity. The authors examine the treatment of the left from the '50s Communist Party thru the '80s Central America solidarity movement.
Ward Churchill is a member of the Governing Council of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement, Coordinator of American Indian Studies for the University of Colorado, Boulder. Jim Vander Wall is an active supporter of the struggles of Native People for sovereignty & has written several articles on the FBI. He's co-author, with Ward Churchill, of Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars on the Black Panther Party & the American Indian Movement ('88) & an editor of New Studies on the Left.
Preface: The Face of COINTELPRO
Guide to the Documents
Introduction: A Glimpse Into the Files of America's Political Police
Understanding Deletions in FBI Documents
COINTELPRO-CP, USA
COINTELPRO-SWP
COINTELPRO-Puerto Rican Independence Movement
COINTELPRO-Black Liberation Movement
COINTELPRO-New Left
COINTELPRO-AIM
Conclusion: COINTELPRO Lives On

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