The COINTELPRO Papers
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The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret War Against Domestic Dissent is a book by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall. It is a history of the FBI's COINTELPRO efforts to disrupt dissident political organizations within the United States. It reproduces many original FBI memos.
It was first published in 1990 by South End Press (paperback: ISBN 0-89608-359-4, hardcover: ISBN 0-89608-360-8). In 2002, a South End Press Classics edition was released (paperback: ISBN 0-89608-648-8, hardcover: ISBN 0-89608-649-6); it included a new preface by Churchill updating the cases of several incarcerated Black Panthers, analyzing the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco, and the War on Drugs and War on Terrorism.
[edit] Contents
- 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
[edit] External links
- The COINTELPRO Papers Updated Edition page at South End Press.
- Chapter 1, Understanding Deletions in FBI Documents
- Chapter 7, on COINTELPRO - American Indian Movement (AIM)
- Chronicling the FBI’s history of dirty tricks, a review of The COINTELPRO Papers and Agents of Repression by Elizabeth Schulte at the Socialist Worker (US) online (September 27, 2002).
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