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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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A Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman

Year1919 PublishersLibrary of Congress (Paul Avrich Collection)

Pamphlet documenting Goldman and Berkman's imprisonment at Jefferson City and Atlanta for anti-conscription organizing. Directly about two of the most famous U.S. political prisoners; both convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act and deported in 1919.

A Guide to the Grand Jury — Kathy Boudin & Brian Glick (Liberation, June 1969)

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression DateJune 1, 1969 AuthorsKathy Boudin; Brian Glick PublishersLiberation

June 1969 Liberation magazine article on how the grand jury is used to dismantle political movements.

After four years [Press Release]

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 1, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Press Release four years into the organization's campaign

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.

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

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1988 AuthorsWard Churchill; Jim Vander Wall PublishersSouth End Press

Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...

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.

Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution — Arthur Eckstein (2016)

CollectionMovement History DateJanuary 1, 2016 AuthorsArthur Eckstein PublishersYale University Press

Arthur Eckstein's history of the Weather Underground, drawing heavily on FBI files. Covers the 1976 split and the emergence of PFOC, the May 19th Communist Organization, and the Resistance Conspiracy formation.

Berkeley Tribe Vol. 6 No. 5 (1971) — Grand Jury Coverage

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 AuthorsTom Miller PublishersRed Mountain Tribe

Issue of Berkeley Tribe (Vol. 6, No. 5, 1971) containing a Tom Miller article on grand juries.

Black Panther Party 35th Anniversary & Reunion Conference (poster)

CollectionPrisoner Solidarity Year2002 PublishersIt's About Time (Sacramento)

A poster for the Black Panther Party 35th Anniversary & Reunion Conference in Washington, D.C., April 18–20, 2002, organized by the It's About Time Committee on the theme "COINTELPRO & Political Prisoners." It advertises workshops, a banquet, film and photo/art exhibits, and speakers; is illustrated with eight photographs; and frames the gathering around the...

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 — Educator Pamphlet

CollectionFreedom Archives PublishersFreedom Archives

Long-form COINTELPRO history and methods scan distributed for educational use.

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.

Cesar Chavez — Part 1 of 17

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1973 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. White-House-directed 'special investigation' surveillance of Chavez; relevant to labor-organizer prosecution history.

Cesar Chavez — Part 2 of 17

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1973 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI Chavez file Part 2.