Agents of repression : the FBI's secret wars against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

Calling the FBI America's political police, this book examines the agency's harassment, surveillance, and disruption of black and Native American groups in the 1960s and 1970s, and shows how it sought to maintain the sociopolitical status quo within the country. The authors demonstrate how the FBI's covert counter-intelligence program known as COINTELPRO, which was set up to undermine liberal groups, came to symbolize the whole context of "clandestine political repression activities." For students of radical movements and government repression. Daughter Of The Earth: Song For Anna Mae Aquash / By Ellen Klaver. -- Introduction: Beyond The Myth. -- Pt. I: The Fbi As Political Police -- A Capsule History. Birth And Formation ; The Cointelpro Era ; Cointelpro-black Panther Party. -- Pt. Ii: A Context Of Struggle. Why Pine Ridge? ; The Pine Ridge Battleground. -- Pt. Iii: The Fbi On Pine Ridge, 1972-76. The Goons, Cable Splicer And Garden Plot ; Assassinations And Bad-jacketing ; Informers, Infiltrators, Agents Provocateurs ; The Ogala Firefight ; The Disinformation Campaign ; Perjury And Fabrication Of Evidence ; Other Political Abuses Of The Judicial System. -- Pt. Iv: We Will Remember. A Legacy Of Repression ; Moving Forward. By Ward Churchill And Jim Vander Wall. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 469-475. " 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." -- Amazon.com viewed July 10, 2020 "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."--Amazon.com viewed Oct. 7, 2020 By Ward Churchill And Jim Vander Wall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 469-475) And Index.