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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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Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence and its Impact on the Public Security — Senate Hearings, 1978

CollectionU.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee DateJanuary 1, 1978 AuthorsU.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act PublishersU.S. Government Printing Office

1978 Senate Subcommittee hearings (95th Congress) lamenting the post-Church Committee curtailment of FBI domestic intelligence. PFOC, the Weather Underground, the FALN, and the BLA are repeatedly cited as the threats the committee believed the FBI was no longer monitoring adequately. A key document for understanding the political backlash that fed the FBI's...