''The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States'' is a book by

Ward Churchill Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American activist, author, and former academic. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007.

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 Federal law enforcement in the United States, its principal federal law enforcement ag ...

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

efforts to disrupt

dissident A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 2 ...

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 in Boston's South End. It published books written by political activists, notably Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Win ...

. The first edition was printed in 1990 with a foreword by

John Trudell John Trudell (February 15, 1946December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as ''Rad ...

, a preface by Brian Glick, and a guide to the documents by

Chip Berlet John Foster "Chip" Berlet (; born November 22, 1949) is an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of extreme right-wing movements in the United States. He also studie ...

and Brian Glick. The book is dedicated to

Fred Hampton Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and c ...

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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