''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 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and its principal Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement age ...

COINTELPRO COINTELPRO ( syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program; 1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal projects actively conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrati ...

efforts to disrupt dissident political organizations within the United States, and reproduces many original FBI memos.

Publication

''The COINTELPRO Papers'' is published by

South End Press South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, Juliet Schor, among others, in Boston's South End. It published books written by political activi ...

. The first edition was printed in 1990 with a foreword by John Trudell, a preface by Brian Glick, and a guide to the documents by Chip Berlet and Brian Glick. The book is dedicated to

Fred Hampton Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist. He came to prominence in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. As a progressive African Ameri ...

and Mark Clark. South End Press produced the second edition in 2002, with a new preface, as part of their 'Classics Series'. With 560 pages, it has in hard cover, and in paperback.

External links

* Preface by Brian Glick:
The Face of COINTELPRO
* More excerpts can be found at:
Google Books
* Online review (September 27, 2002) of ''

Agents of Repression ''Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement'' is a book by Americans Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, first published in 1988. It describes government campaigns to disrupt the ...

'' and ''The COINTELPRO Papers'' by Elizabeth Schulte at the '' Socialist Worker (US)'':
Chronicling the FBI’s history of dirty tricks
* Publisher webpage:
''The COINTELPRO Papers''
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