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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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Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

Year1988 AuthorsWard Churchill and Jim Vander Wall PublishersSouth End Press / Internet Archive

Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's documentary history of FBI operations against the BPP and AIM. Primary published synthesis of COINTELPRO targeting of Peltier, Pratt, the Panther 21, and Wounded Knee defendants.

Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.

Bring War Criminal Nixon to Trial! Smash COINTELPRO!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Flyer for demonstration against Nixon at Federal Courthouse, Foley Square

COINTELPRO - Domestic Subverside Warfare: The Case of Clark, et. al. v. The United States

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Pamphlet laying out the background of COINTELPRO and Clark v. USA

COINTELPRO 101 Trailer

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Cointelpro 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Cointelpro refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the gov...

COINTELPRO 1980: Blueprint for Facism

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Flyer for COINTELPRO 1980 Forum A Blueprint for Facism. On the back of the flyer is a text about the main themes of the forum.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ counterintelligence file targeting 'Black Nationalist - Hate Groups' under COINTELPRO. Master file documenting FBI's operations against the Black Panther Party, RAM, Republic of New Afrika, SCLC, SNCC, and individuals including Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey Newton.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 08

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file Part 8, including memoranda authorizing Director-level disruption ops against Black Panther figures who became political prisoners (Geronimo Pratt, Huey Newton, Panther 21).

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 10

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Continued FBI COINTELPRO Black Extremists file, mid-program operations. Documents FBI dirty-tricks campaigns referenced in later wrongful-conviction litigation for Geronimo Pratt and Dhoruba bin Wahad.

COINTELPRO New Left HQ — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI Headquarters file on the COINTELPRO program against the New Left. Surveillance/disruption file underlying federal cases against SDS, the Weather Underground, and the Chicago 8.

COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Groups — Part 1 of 11

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file on 'Groups Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico.' Surveillance file underlying prosecutions of Nationalist Party members and FALN/Macheteros prisoners including Oscar López Rivera.

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 01 of 05

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file targeting the Socialist Workers Party. Documents ten years of warrantless surveillance the SWP successfully sued the FBI over (Socialist Workers v. Attorney General, 1986).

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 05 (Final)

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Final volume of the COINTELPRO-SWP HQ file. Closing memoranda on the SWP disruption program.

COINTELPRO White Hate Groups — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI COINTELPRO file on KKK and white-supremacist groups. Includes informant relationships with klansmen later prosecuted in the Viola Liuzzo and civil rights worker murders.

COINTELPRO: A Brief Overview

CollectionGovernment Repression DateNovember 8, 1989 AuthorsDhoruba Bin Wahad PublishersFreedom Archives

Short report deals with a background on COINTELPRO, its true purposes and objectives, and how COINTELPRO operations influenced future political and social opinions.

Church Committee Final Report — Book III

CollectionChurch Committee Reports DateApril 26, 1976 PublishersU.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities

Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. The definitive congressional documentation of COINTELPRO operations against MLK, BPP, AIM, SWP, Puerto Rican independence groups, and the Communist Party USA.

Church Committee Hearings Vol. 6 — Federal Bureau of Investigation

CollectionChurch Committee Reports Year1975 PublishersU.S. Senate

Senate hearings on FBI intelligence activities. Testimony documenting FBI operations against political prisoners (King, BPP, SDS); foundational for COINTELPRO-era PP cases.

FBI COINTELPRO Puerto Rico — Consolidated

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1971 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

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

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1971 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

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 Stokely Carmichael — Consolidated

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1974 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

Consolidated FBI Stokely Carmichael file. Carmichael was a primary COINTELPRO target.

FBI Secret COINTELPRO Documents Against Black Community

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

reproduction of FBI documents.

Form Letter to Judge Kathleen Parker

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1980 PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

Form letter urging Judge Kathleen Parker to release Geronimo Pratt from prison

Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

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...

Free Geronimo Pratt!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct and the National Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research

Flyer urging support for Geronimo Pratt, imprisoned as a result of COINTELPRO activities.

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.