Records
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Profiles of Provocateurs
Kristian Williams's 2011 PM Press pamphlet documenting law-enforcement and informant infiltration of U.S. social movements — case studies of named provocateurs (Brandon Darby, Anna Davies, Andrew Darst, etc.) who infiltrated antiwar, Earth/Animal Liberation, and anarchist organizing, the techniques they used, and the prosecutions and entrapment cases their w...
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
Companion volume to Agents of Repression (1988). Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's 1990 South End Press compilation reproduces hundreds of pages of FBI COINTELPRO documents — released under FOIA — covering the Bureau's operations against the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Puerto Rican independence movement, the New Left and the anti-war...
War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It
Brian Glick's 1989 South End Press handbook on FBI/COINTELPRO-style covert action against U.S. social movements, written for movement participants. Combines a historical synthesis of COINTELPRO and its successors with concrete advice for activists on recognizing infiltrators and provocateurs, defending against grand juries, protecting communications, support...