Cointelpro

Author : Cathy Perkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:48323235

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Cointelpro by Cathy Perkus Pdf

Author : James Kirkpatrick Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313064661

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Spying on America by James Kirkpatrick Davis Pdf

COINTELPRO. An acronym for Counterintelligence Program, this is the code name the FBI gave to the secret operations aimed at five major social and political protest groups--the Communist party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Ku Klux Klan, black nationalist hate groups, and the New Left movement. Spying on America, the first book to chronicle all five of the operations, tells the story of how the FBI, from 1956 until COINTELPRO's exposure in 1971, expanded its domestic surveillance programs and increasingly employed questionable, even unlawful, methods in an effort to disrupt what amounts to virtually our entire social and political protest movement. Violations of citizens' constitutional rights were rampant, and the secret operations actually resulted in a number of deaths. At the time, neither the public nor the news media knew anything about COINTELPRO. In vivid detail, Spying on America demonstrates that the system of checks and balances designed to prevent such occurrences was simply not functioning--until an illegal act uncovered the secret activities. The book opens with the daring raid of a Media, Pennsylvania FBI office by a group that adeptly used its booty--about 1,000 classified documents--to make COINTELPRO operations public. The burglars, who called themselves the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI, used sophisticated methods (the FBI never caught up with them), releasing copies of incriminating documents to the media at carefully timed intervals. Spying on America draws on newspaper and magazine articles, interviews with many of the people involved, and FBI memos to trace the historical beginnings and operating methods of COINTELPRO efforts against each of the five targeted groups. In vivid detail, the author re-creates the reactions of the bureau--including the subsequent policy changes--as well as the response of the news media and the resulting shift in public attitudes toward the FBI. Finally, Davis looks at the possibility of similar operations in the future. In the context of our current, heightened state of socio-political awareness, it is difficult to comprehend how so many unlawful deeds could have been committed without the public's knowledge. Spying on America makes us aware of how easily such activities can occur--and in doing so, helps us prevent them from happening again.

Author : Charlie Armstrong Adams
Publisher : Animal Politicus
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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COINTELPRO 5.0: Unraveling the Web of Gangstalking, Deep State, Intrigues, Societal Engineering, and Surveillance Unveiled by Charlie Armstrong Adams Pdf

COINTELPRO 5.0: Unraveling the Web of Gangstalking, Deep State, Intrigues, Societal Engineering, and Surveillance Unveiled" is a thought-provoking exploration into the intricate world of covert operations, government surveillance, and the evolution of intelligence agencies. Spanning over 20 chapters, this comprehensive journey sheds light on the historical origins of COINTELPRO, its objectives, and its controversial continuation in the contemporary era. Beginning with an in-depth historical context, the book traces the roots of COINTELPRO, unveiling J. Edgar Hoover's involvement and exposing the revelation of government surveillance that left an indelible mark on American history. The narrative progresses to explore the evolution of COINTELPRO, drawing parallels with the 9/11 Truth Movement and delving into the controversial case of Julian Assange, revealing alleged CIA and COINTELPRO tactics. Chapters dedicated to COINTELPRO's strategies, surveillance synergy during the Nixon era, and the expansion of mass surveillance post-9/11 provide a detailed examination of the complex web of intelligence operations. The book navigates through the deep state's influence, unraveling covert networks of power beyond political leadership, and scrutinizes the intersection of politics, religion, and the Vatican's adaptive strategies. The Five Eyes intelligence alliance, domestic intelligence agencies, private intelligence firms, and collaborative efforts between intelligence agencies and the Roman Catholic Church are explored, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the interconnected world of espionage. As the narrative unfolds, it probes into psychological manipulation techniques, opposition research, and the dark side of bureaucracy within government agencies. The book takes a closer look at the impacts of COINTELPRO on mental and physical health, examining the ethical implications of collaborations between mental health professionals and intelligence agencies. From community stalking to the suppression of dissent, the book reveals historical parallels between COINTELPRO and the Catholic Inquisitors. It sheds light on societal engineering challenges, navigating the balance between progress and peril, and explores the founders of influential groups like the Bilderberg Group. In conclusion, "COINTELPRO 5.0" prompts readers to critically analyze the intersection of power, secrecy, and influence in shaping the contemporary world. This enlightening exploration challenges perspectives on surveillance, intelligence, and societal manipulation, providing a compelling narrative for those intrigued by the hidden dimensions of global affairs.

Author : L.M. Bogad
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781604865639

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Cointelshow by L.M. Bogad Pdf

Inform yourself! Inform on your neighbor! Follow Special Agent Christian White on a cheerfully creepy tour of declassified government surveillance documents. White probes the redacted (blacked-out) texts of the FBI’s notorious Counterintelligence Programs, searching for the words erased in the name of the Freedom of Information Act. Learn fun techniques for the infiltration of activist groups, how to earn benefits and a pension as an agent provocateur, and how to, in the words of J. Edgar Hoover, “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize” your neighbors! These are our tax dollars at work, folks; we might as well enjoy it. This script has been performed by writer/activist L.M. Bogad in theatres, galleries, labor halls, and community centers for the past twelve years. The pamphlet also includes a preface by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and a companion essay by Bogad about the history of domestic surveillance/harassment, and a “how to” for would-be performers of the script. Back by popular demand, this new Second Edition adds photos of the original COINTELPRO documents used in the show. There are also many updates to the script: more information, more character development, and more and better jokes, all in the darkly humorous style of the original.

Author : Betty Medsger
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307962966

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The Burglary by Betty Medsger Pdf

The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation. It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the Vietnam War . . . A small group of activists—eight men and women—the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, inspired by Daniel Berrigan’s rebellious Catholic peace movement, set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once and for all that the government was operating outside the laws of the land. The would-be burglars—nonpro’s—were ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German civilians under Nazi rule. Betty Medsger's extraordinary book re-creates in resonant detail how this group of unknowing thieves, in their meticulous planning of the burglary, scouted out the low-security FBI building in a small town just west of Philadelphia, taking into consideration every possible factor, and how they planned the break-in for the night of the long-anticipated boxing match between Joe Frazier (war supporter and friend to President Nixon) and Muhammad Ali (convicted for refusing to serve in the military), knowing that all would be fixated on their televisions and radios. Medsger writes that the burglars removed all of the FBI files and, with the utmost deliberation, released them to various journalists and members of Congress, soon upending the public’s perception of the inviolate head of the Bureau and paving the way for the first overhaul of the FBI since Hoover became its director in 1924. And we see how the release of the FBI files to the press set the stage for the sensational release three months later, by Daniel Ellsberg, of the top-secret, seven-thousand-page Pentagon study on U.S. decision-making regarding the Vietnam War, which became known as the Pentagon Papers. At the heart of the heist—and the book—the contents of the FBI files revealing J. Edgar Hoover’s “secret counterintelligence program” COINTELPRO, set up in 1956 to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the United States in order “to enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles,” to make clear to all Americans that an FBI agent was “behind every mailbox,” a plan that would discredit, destabilize, and demoralize groups, many of them legal civil rights organizations and antiwar groups that Hoover found offensive—as well as black power groups, student activists, antidraft protestors, conscientious objectors. The author, the first reporter to receive the FBI files, began to cover this story during the three years she worked for The Washington Post and continued her investigation long after she'd left the paper, figuring out who the burglars were, and convincing them, after decades of silence, to come forward and tell their extraordinary story. The Burglary is an important and riveting book, a portrait of the potential power of non­violent resistance and the destructive power of excessive government secrecy and spying.

Author : Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political persecution
ISBN : 0896086461

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Agents of Repression by Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall Pdf

For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change. Ward Churchill is author of From a Native Son. Jim Vander Wall is co-author of The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, with Ward Churchill.

Author : Church Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1610010043

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The Fbi, Cointelpro, and Martin Luther King, Jr by Church Committee Pdf

The final report of the 1975 US Senate Church Committee, describing the decade-long effort by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI to discredit and "neutralize" the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover considered the civil rights movement to be "Communist," and did everything in his power to destroy it.

Author : Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Black nationalism
ISBN : 0896086496

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The COINTELPRO Papers by Ward Churchill,Jim Vander Wall Pdf

FBI documents and original interviews reveal the FBI's political campaigns from 1956 into the 1980s.

Author : Brian Glick
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0896083497

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War at Home by Brian Glick Pdf

This is a must handbook for private study and group discussion by all progressive and radical activists. Today's defense depends on our knowledge of yesterday's repression. The message: the political police haven't forgotten us--we can't afford to forget them and their methods.--Philip Agee, former CIA agent

Author : Church Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716728878

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Cointelpro by Church Committee Pdf

COINTELPRO is an abbreviation (Counter Intelligence Program) for a series of covert action programs by the Federal Bureau of Investigation directed against domestic groups. In these programs, the Bureau went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret action designed to "disrupt" and "neutralize" target groups and individuals, which included the civil rights movement (such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Panther Party), anti-war protestors, feminists, environmentalists, animal rights organizers, the American Indian Movement, and a variety of left-wing organizations. The techniques were adopted wholesale from wartime counterintelligence, and ranged from the trivial to the degrading (sending anonymous poison-pen letters intended to break up marriages) and the dangerous (encouraging gang warfare and falsely labeling members of a violent group as police informers). This book includes witness testimony from a committee led by Senator Frank Church that includes many of the Bureau agents involved in the programs and informants involved in COINTELPRO operations.

Author : John Drabble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3404401

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COINTELPRO-White Hate, the FBI, and the Cold War Political Consensus by John Drabble Pdf

Author : Allan N. Kornblum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : IND:30000139846392

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Intelligence and the Law by Allan N. Kornblum Pdf

Author : David Cunningham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520246652

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There’s Something Happening Here by David Cunningham Pdf

Annotation Drawing upon thousands of pages of primary source documents, Cunningham examines COINTELPRO's surveillance of both right and left-wing social movements in the 1960s-1980s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : UCBK:B000132601

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Intelligence and the Law: Ch. 1 The legal framework for intelligence, Ch. 2 Legal authorities for intelligence. Ch. 3 Domestic security. Ch. 4 Search and seizure. Ch. 5 Electronic surveillance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tom O'Neill
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780316477574

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Chaos by Tom O'Neill Pdf

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi -- prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him? And how did Manson -- an illiterate ex-con -- turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.