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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Clayton Van Lydegraf — FBI File
FBI file on Clayton Van Lydegraf (1915–1992), the veteran Communist Party USA member turned Weather Underground / PFOC theorist who was the political mentor of the post-1976 PFOC. Arrested in November 1977 as part of the 'LA 5' on conspiracy/explosives charges. The file documents decades of FBI surveillance from the Smith Act era through the Weather Undergro...
FBI File on Gerald William Doeden (aka Gino Perente)
FBI file on Gerald William Doeden, better known by his nom-de-guerre Gino Perente, founder of the National Labor Federation (NATLFED) and its associated cadre formation the Communist Party USA (Provisional). PFOC and NATLFED were contemporaneous post-New-Left cadre formations operating in some of the same milieus; the file's references to PFOC are part of FB...