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
Ward Churchill
Ward LeRoy Churchill is an author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007. The primary focus of his work is on the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States government...

 and Jim Vander Wall. It is a history of the FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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's COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.COINTELPRO tactics included discrediting targets through psychological...

 efforts to disrupt dissident political organizations within the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It reproduces many original FBI memos.

It was first published in 1990 by South End Press
South End Press
South End Press is a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others, in Boston's South End...

 (paperback: ISBN 0-89608-359-4, hardcover: ISBN 0-89608-360-8). In 2002, a South End Press
South End Press
South End Press is a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others, in Boston's South End...

 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
Ruby Ridge
Ruby Ridge was the site of a violent confrontation and siege in northern Idaho in 1992. It involved Randy Weaver, his family, Weaver's friend Kevin Harris, and agents of the United States Marshals Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation...

 and Waco, and the War on Drugs
War on Drugs
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 and War on Terrorism
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.

Contents

  • Preface - The Face of COINTELPRO
    COINTELPRO
    COINTELPRO was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.COINTELPRO tactics included discrediting targets through psychological...

  • Guide to the Documents
  • Introduction: A Glimpse Into the Files of America's Political Police
  1. Understanding Deletions in FBI Documents
  2. COINTELPRO - CP, USA
  3. COINTELPRO - SWP
  4. COINTELPRO - Puerto Rican Independence Movement
    Puerto Rican independence movement
    The Puerto Rican independence movement refers to initiatives throughout the history of Puerto Rico aimed at obtaining independence for the Island, first from Spain, and then from the United States...

  5. COINTELPRO - Black Liberation Movement
  6. COINTELPRO - New Left
    New Left
    The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...

  7. COINTELPRO - AIM
    American Indian Movement
    The American Indian Movement is a Native American activist organization in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by urban Native Americans. The national AIM agenda focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty...

  8. Conclusion: COINTELPRO Lives On

External links

  • The COINTELPRO Papers Updated Edition page at South End Press
    South End Press
    South End Press is a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others, in Boston's South End...

    .
  • Chapter 1, Understanding Deletions in FBI Documents
  • Chapter 7, on COINTELPRO - American Indian Movement
    American Indian Movement
    The American Indian Movement is a Native American activist organization in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by urban Native Americans. The national AIM agenda focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty...

     (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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