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

Churchill, Ward; Vander Wall, Jim

ISBN 10: 0896082938 / ISBN 13: 9780896082939

Published by South End Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
• Publisher: South End Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896082938
• ISBN 13: 9780896082939
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 30 ounces

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Synopsis

A classic study of govenrment repression against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.

Reviews

Calling the FBI America's political police, this book examines the agency's harassment, surveillance, and disruption of black and Native American groups in the 1960s and 1970s, and shows how it sought to maintain the sociopolitical status quo within the country. The authors demonstrate how the FBI's covert counter-intelligence program known as COINTELPRO, which was set up to undermine liberal groups, came to symbolize the whole context of "clandestine political repression activities." For students of radical movements and government repression. John R. Sillito, Weber State Coll. Lib., Ogden, Ut.
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