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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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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.

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.

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...