Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change.
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Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change.
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Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

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For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781574782172
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Publication date: 05/03/2022
Pages: 540
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Ward Churchill is an American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. The primary focus of his work focuses the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States government. He was a member of the Governing Council of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement.

Ward Churchill is an American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. The primary focus of his work focuses the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States government. He was a member of the Governing Council of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement.

Ward Churchill is an American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. The primary focus of his work focuses the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States government. He was a member of the Governing Council of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement.

Jim Vander Wall is an active supporter of indigenous people's sovereignty, and has written several articles on FBI counterintelligence operations.

Table of Contents

Dedication vi

"Daughter of the Earth: Song for Anna Mae Aquash" Ellen Klaver vii

About the Authors viii

Acknowledgements ix

Glossary xi

Preface to the Classics Edition xvii

Introduction: Beyond the Myth 1

Part I The FBI as Political Police-A Capsule History

1 Birth and Formation 17

2 The COINTELPRO Era 37

3 COINTELPRO-Black Panther Party 63

Part II A Context of. Struggle

4 Why Pine Ridge? 103

5 The Pine Ridge Background 135

Part III The FBI on Pine Ridge, 1972-76

6 The GOONS, Cable Splicer, and Garden Plot 181

7 Assassinations and Bad-jacketing 199

8 Informers, Infiltrators, Agents Provocateurs 219

9 The Oglala Firefight 235

10 The Disinformation Campaign 261

11 Perjury and Fabrication of Evidence 287

12 Other Political Abuses of the judicial System 329

Part IV We Will Remember

13 A Legacy of Repression 353

14 Moving Forward 383

Notes 389

Bibliography 469

Index 477

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