Records
Dear Friends Donation Letter
Donation letter for the Committee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct.
Dear Friends Puerto Rico Victory Letter
Letter celebrating the freedom of William Guillermo Morales.
Demonstrate Against FBI Coverup!
Flyer for demonstration at US District Court, District of Columbia
Demonstrate! Come to Court Support Clark v. USA
Demonstrate at Federal Courthouse, Foley Square, to support the plaintiffs in Clark v. USA.
Emergency Committee to Stop the Grand Jury
Reproduction. Contains a press release, letter from the National Conference of Black Lawyers, Court papers submitted by JBAKC attorneys in Chicago, and all the subpoenaed public documents of the JBAKC.
Eugene V. Debs — Canton Speech (1918)
Debs's June 16, 1918 antiwar speech and trial record under the Espionage Act. Debs is the foundational U.S. Espionage Act political prisoner (10-year sentence, Atlanta federal pen); he ran for president from prison in 1920.
FBI COINTELPRO Puerto Rico — Consolidated
Consolidated COINTELPRO Puerto Rico HQ file. Surveillance file underlying Nationalist Party and FALN prosecutions (Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Oscar López Rivera).
FBI COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Consolidated
Consolidated FBI COINTELPRO-SWP file. Documents ten years of warrantless FBI surveillance/disruption of the SWP later ruled illegal in federal court.
FBI File on John Trudell
FBI file on AIM leader and Radio Free Alcatraz broadcaster John Trudell. Documents FBI targeting of Trudell that some argue connects to the 1979 arson death of his family; AIM context for Peltier.
FBI File on Russell Means
FBI file on AIM co-founder Russell Means. Surveillance file on Means around Wounded Knee 1973; directly tied to AIM political-prisoner cases including Leonard Peltier.
FBI File on Stokely Carmichael — Consolidated
Consolidated FBI Stokely Carmichael file. Carmichael was a primary COINTELPRO target.
FBI File on the Black Panther Party (NC Subfile 105-165706)
Fifteen-section FBI HQ subfile on BPP activity in North Carolina. Same BPP surveillance series as the Vault entries above.
FBI Files on Cesar Chavez (1966-1975) — Consolidated
Consolidated PDF of FBI HQ files on Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
FBI Investigation File on Communist Infiltration of the SCLC
FBI 'COMINFIL' file on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Surveillance pretext file used to justify wiretapping King and SCLC organizers.
FBI New York City Field Office File on Malcolm X
NYC field office file on Malcolm X. Local complement to the HQ file; relevant to the Aziz / Islam exoneration findings.
FBI Secret COINTELPRO Documents Against Black Community
reproduction of FBI documents.
Federal Appeals Court Gives Richard Nixon Extra-Legal Rights To Immediate Appeal of Denial of Absolute Immunity for Crimes
Federal Appeals Court Gives Richard Nixon Extra-Legal Rights To Immediate Appeal of Denial of Absolute Immunity for Crimes.
Fight for Justice: Francisco "Kiko" Martínez (CSU Pueblo exhibit panel)
A panel from a Colorado State University Pueblo library exhibit on Chicano-movement attorney Francisco "Kiko" Martínez. Titled "Fight for Justice," it reproduces a September 16, 1983 La Cucaracha article — "Martínez Cleared on Bomb Charges" — reporting U.S. District Judge Frank G. Theis's August 18, 1983 dismissal of the last 1973 bombing counts against him...
Form Letter to Judge Kathleen Parker
Form letter urging Judge Kathleen Parker to release Geronimo Pratt from prison
Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
In 1973, Chicano activist and lawyer Francisco "Kiko" Martinez was indicted in Colorado on trumped-up bombing charges and suspended from the bar. He was forced to leave the United States for fear of assassination by police directed to shoot him "on sight." When Martinez was eventually brought to trial in the 1980s, many of the charges against him were droppe...
Fred Hampton — Part 01
FBI HQ file on Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Documents the FBI / Chicago PD targeting that culminated in the police killing of Hampton and Mark Clark on December 4, 1969.
Fred Hampton — Part 2 of 2
Second part of the Fred Hampton FBI file. Surveillance leading to Hampton's killing.
Free Geronimo Pratt!
Flyer urging support for Geronimo Pratt, imprisoned as a result of COINTELPRO activities.
Free Juan Otero
A 1973 movement defense flyer from the Committee to Defend Juan Otero (c/o Rev. Juan Otero, 535 Jackson Ave., Bronx, New York). It presents Otero — a Bronx family man, educational specialist, and community activist working for equality in the building trades — as the victim of a frame-up by South Bronx police, in collaboration with corrupt construction contr...