The cointelpro papers pdf

FBI. 14 Feb. 1969. The Cointelpro Papers. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Print. This is a letter describing the action that the FBI was devising to disband a young and acclaimed activist couple. I used this document as a background screen while talking about this example pursued by the government to give the audience a feel for what the letter looked The FBI's FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI's capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. communists, socialists, anti-war activists, and black nationalists, in 1956. Since COINTELPRO utilized primarily undercover methods of disruption, the program's viability relied on its secretive nature so when its paper trail began to surface in 1971, the program was quickly and officially disbanded. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States is a book by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, first published in 1990. It is a history of the FBI 's COINTELPRO efforts to disrupt dissident political organizations within the United States, and reproduces many original FBI memos. Publication [ edit] After numerous attempts to convict Pratt on trumped up charges failed, Pratt was accused of the 1968 "Tennis Court Murder". On December 18, 1968, a white couple, Caroline and Kenneth Olsen, were robbed and shot by two black men on a tennis court in Santa Monica, California. Caroline Olsen would die a week later. 270 Ward Churchill, "COINTELPRO Papers," page 140. PDF available here. A truly astounding book that draws heavily on official documents provided by the FBI. A 'must read'. 271 Wikipedia page on Fred Hampton. 272 Chicago Tribune, "The Black Panther Raid and the death of Fred Hampton," December 4, 1969. 273 "Cointelpro Papers" page 160 The item The COINTELPRO papers : documents from the FBI's secret wars against domestic dissent, by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall ; foreword by John Trudell ; preface by Brian Glick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. COINTELPRO ( syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956-1971) was a series of covert and illegal [1] [2] projects actively conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations. COINTELPRO Revisited - Spying & Disruption. IN BLACK AND WHITE: THE F.B.I. PAPERS Following are transcripts of official FBI COINTELPRO documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The March 4, 1968 communique was sent out by J. Edgar Hoover himself just one month before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI COINTELPRO: The U.S. Government's War Against Dissent COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was the official name of the programmatic project conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under state-sponsored terrorist J. Edgar Hoover. It's stated aim was the spying on, infiltrating, discrediting, disrupting and destruction of domestic