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Cointelpro : The FBIs Secret war on Political Freedom

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Pathfinder Press 1988Description: 203 p. PB 21x13 cmISBN:
  • 9780873488778
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 364.1320973 BLAC
Summary: Describes the decades-long covert counterintelligence program code-named Cointelpro directed against socialists and activists in the Black and anti-Vietnam War movements. The operations revealed in the documents cited in this book many of them photographically reproduced provide an unprecedented look at the methods used by the FBI, CIA, military intelligence, and other U.S. police agencies. Despite their authors intentions, these documents also record pieces of the history of efforts to build the communist movement in the United States. Introduction by Noam Chomsky, graphic reproductions of FBI documents.
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Describes the decades-long covert counterintelligence program code-named Cointelpro directed against socialists and activists in the Black and anti-Vietnam War movements. The operations revealed in the documents cited in this book many of them photographically reproduced provide an unprecedented look at the methods used by the FBI, CIA, military intelligence, and other U.S. police agencies. Despite their authors intentions, these documents also record pieces of the history of efforts to build the communist movement in the United States.
Introduction by Noam Chomsky, graphic reproductions of FBI documents.

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