Readers anxious about civil liberties under George W. Bush will find fodder for fears—and suggestions for activism—in The COINTELPRO Papers. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's exposé of America's political police force, the FBI, reveals the steel fist undergirding "compassionate conservatism's" velvet glove. Using original FBI memos, the authors provide extensive analysis of the agency's treatment of the left, from the Communist Party in the 1950s to the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s. The authors' new introduction posits likely trajectories for domestic repression.
Ward Churchill is author of From a Native Son. Jim Vander Wall is co-author of Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, with Ward Churchill.
| Dedication | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| About the Authors | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Guide to the Documents | ||
| Preface to the Second Edition | ||
| Introduction: A Glimpse Into the Files of America's Secret Police | 1 | |
| 1 | Understanding Deletions in FBI Documents | 23 |
| 2 | COINTELPRO - CP, USA | 33 |
| 3 | COINTELPRO - SWP | 49 |
| 4 | COINTELPRO - Puerto Rican Independence Movement | 63 |
| 5 | COINTELPRO - Black Liberation Movement | 91 |
| 6 | COINTELPRO - New Left | 165 |
| 7 | COINTELPRO - AIM | 231 |
| 8 | Conclusion: COINTELPRO Lives On | 303 |
| Organizational Contacts | 328 | |
| Notes | 331 | |
| Bibliography | 420 | |
| Index | 439 |
Anonymous
Posted August 16, 2005
Should be required reading in high school (teaching young people truth might keep them in high school). Should be required reading for ALL CRITICAL THINKERS! Massive and intense exposure of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program--here it is from the Communist Party,USA to Dr. Martin Luther King to the Puerto Rican Independistas to the Black Panther Party to the American Indian Movement to segments of the anti-war (Vietnam) movement. Includes photocopies of some of the actual documents. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT WRITE YOUR OWN FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AND DEMAND YOUR DOCUMENTS (Unless of course by tomorrow it isn't outlawed under 'national security'). The only problem I have with the book is its glaring omission of the CoIntelPro against the Communist Workers Party (where the authorities and the Klan murdered activists in Greensboro, N.C.) the Revolutionary Union, Bob Avakian, and the Revolutionary Communist Party--such as hundreds of arrests for selling newspapers, planting drugs on activists, and the assasination of Damian Garcia in L.A. I hope if the author reads this he doesn't take it the wrong way, it doesn't in any way discredit or make his exposure any less profound-for it certainly is, but there is a sense that it is only 'part of the iceberg.' Recommended highly for students of history and politics, US treatment of different nationalities, law students, professors...and of course those who want to understand the world in order to change it.
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Readers anxious about civil liberties under George W. Bush will find fodder for fears—and suggestions for activism—in The COINTELPRO Papers. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's exposé of America's political police force, the FBI, reveals the steel fist undergirding "compassionate conservatism's" velvet glove. Using original FBI memos, the authors provide extensive analysis of the agency's treatment of the left, from the Communist Party in the 1950s to the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s. The ...