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Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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Hampton COINTELPRO Booklet

CollectionPeople's Law Office — Hampton, Torture, FALN PublishersPeople's Law Office

Documentary booklet on the FBI COINTELPRO program's role in the killing of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.

Human Rights in the US: The Unfinished Story of Political Prisoners/Victims

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 2001 AuthorsBruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Kathleen Cleaver, Laura Whitehorn, Michael Tarif Warren, Nkechi Taifa PublishersHuman Rights Research Fund, Release 2001

This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.

Jean Seberg — FBI File

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1972 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI file on actress Jean Seberg, a BPP financial supporter. COINTELPRO smear campaign against Seberg for her support of the Panthers, including planting a false rumor that she was pregnant by a Panther — an emblematic COINTELPRO case.

Join a Day of Action to Free All Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Flyer for demonstration in Manhattan, NYC, to free political prisoners and stop FBI/Police Terror.

Jose Lopez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

José López is the executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Under his leadership, the PRCC has developed a number of initiatives in the Humboldt Park community, including an alternative high school, a parent child learning center and day care, a museum and cultural institution, a youth drop-in center and an HIV education and advocacy organizati...

Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and...

Kathy Boudin — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1981 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on Kathy Boudin, Weather Underground member. Surveillance and fugitive file on Boudin, prosecuted for the 1981 Brink's robbery alongside David Gilbert, Mutulu Shakur, and Sekou Odinga.

Laura Whitehorn COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Radical activist and former political prisoner/WUO member who was targeted by the federal government.

Letter to NY Times Editor

CollectionGovernment Repression DateFebruary 15, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Letter to the editor New York Times.

Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 2001 AuthorsBruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Kathleen Cleaver, Laura Whitehorn, Michael Tarif Warren, Nkechi Taifa PublishersHuman Rights Research Fund, Release 2001

In Spanish. This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.

MOVE — FBI File

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1985 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI file on the MOVE organization, Philadelphia. Surveillance file on MOVE — whose members (MOVE 9, Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters) are core U.S. political prisoners — covering the period of the 1978 Powelton Village confrontation.

Malcolm X — Part 01 of 38

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1965 PublishersFBI Vault

First part of a 38-part Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) FBI HQ file. Surveillance file on Malcolm X, target of COINTELPRO operations and Nation of Islam infiltration relevant to ongoing exoneration cases (Aziz, Islam).

Malcolm X — Part 20 of 38

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1965 PublishersFBI Vault

Mid-section of the FBI Malcolm X HQ file; includes post-assassination investigation references.

Malcolm X — Part 33 of 38

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1965 PublishersFBI Vault

Later section of the FBI Malcolm X file. Includes informant material relevant to the wrongful convictions of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam.

Martin Luther King, Jr. — Part 1 of 2

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1968 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., released under FOIA. Surveillance file documenting wiretaps, bugs, and the 'suicide letter' campaign against King, the most famous American victim of COINTELPRO.

Martin Luther King, Jr. — Part 2 of 2

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1968 PublishersFBI Vault

Second portion of the MLK HQ file. Continuation of FBI surveillance file on King through 1968.

Muhammad Ahmad COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford Jr.) was a pivotal figure within the Black Liberation Movement and struggle for Black Power in the 1960s and 70s; notably, he was the national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and a direct target of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO. He is a professor at Temple University.

NARA SF-115 Records Schedule N1-060-02-004 — COINTELPRO and Related FBI Files

Year2002 PublishersNational Archives (NARA)

NARA records schedule for FBI COINTELPRO and related domestic-intelligence files transferred to NARA RG 65. Authoritative index to which COINTELPRO/FBI political-surveillance files have been transferred to NARA and are accessible for research.

National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

Statement with background information about COINTELPRO and the goals of the National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research

Paul Avrich Anarchism Collection — Finding Aid

Year2005 PublishersLibrary of Congress

Finding aid to the Paul Avrich anarchism collection at the Library of Congress, listing imprisoned anarchists' pamphlets. Index to LoC holdings on Sacco-Vanzetti, Berkman, Goldman, Haymarket Martyrs and other anarchist political prisoners.

Plaintiffs Challenge Government's Cover-UP At First Public Court Appearance

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJuly 6, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Plaintiffs Challenge Government's Cover-UP At First Public Court Appearance.

President to President: On the question of human rights

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersNational RNA-11 Defense Committee

Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The In...

Priscilla Falcon COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Priscilla Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the widow of Chicano activist Ricardo Falcon, who was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M. in 1972 en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso. She is a lifelong activist for Ch...

Program of the New York Citizens Review Commission on the FBI

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

3 days of hearings on an overview of the FBI harassment of different struggles, placed in a historic context.

RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence

CollectionGovernment Repression AuthorsNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research

Letter to Law Students, Lawyers, Political Organizations, Political Activists, Research Groups, etc RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence