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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.

Black News - V 4-5 - February 1979

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateFebruary 1, 1979 PublishersEAST Organization

Editorial: Repression of Blacks; FBI Sued for $100 Million; and Who Really Killed Malcolm? Also- Cointelpro Continues; Assata Shakur; Political Prisoners in US; National Notes; Jitu Weusi on Cointelpro; P.O.W. Forum; Dhoruba Moore: P .O .D .W.; B.U.F.M.L.King March; Forum Exposes NCLC group; Letters to the Editor; Ethiopian Foreign Minister; I.R.S. Spys on B...

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.

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.

Fighting the State's Attacks

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

Statement about the arrest of the LA Five, COINTELPRO and self-criticism.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Rectification and the Struggle for Revolutionary Internationalism

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

Pamphlet about rectification, internationalism, COINTELPRO and internal struggles in PFOC. Addresses how PFOC incorrectly placed line struggle within the white left and party-building above the development of international solidarity. Describes how PFOC’s rectified line takes leadership from the strategies of oppressed nations waging revolutionary armed warf...

Stokely Carmichael — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1974 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), SNCC and Black Panther leader. COINTELPRO target; file contains memoranda on disruption tactics and travel monitoring.

Viola Liuzzo — Part 1 of 17

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1965 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI file on the Klan murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. FBI informant Gary Rowe was in the car when Liuzzo was killed; the file is core evidence in COINTELPRO 'White Hate Groups' accountability.