Cointelpro sources

[Gos]

Hello all. I'm working on a research paper for my college history course about government infiltration of activist/peace groups during the 60's and I was wondering if anyone could direct me to some good sources for information about this sort of thing. Since this is a quasi-professional effort the sources should be as reputable as possible. Thanks in advance for your help.

[barracuda]

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

I'm not sure if the FBI's own internal memos qualify as reputable or not, but Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall have assembled a nice compendium of primary sources in this book. Just don't say where you found 'em.

[Sweejak]

The Spies of Texas
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2343

And a few choice quotes:

In the evening, I went up to the U. to check out a strategy meeting. A kid was giving a report on the SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] convention. He said that at the convention, men from Business International Round Tables, the meeting sponsored by Business International for their client groups and heads of government, tried to buy up a few radicals.

These men are the world's leading industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go. These are the guys who wrote the Alliance for Progress. They are the left wing of the ruling class.

They offered to finance our demonstrations in Chicago. We were also offered ESSO (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the left.

---- James Kunen, The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary, pg. 116

I don't have the actual physical text of the following, so watch out. Could be a good lead though.

Young people have no conception of the conspiracy's strategy of pressure from above and pressure from below.... They have no idea that they are playing into the hands of the Establishment they claim to hate. The radicals think they're fighting the forces of the super rich, like Rockefeller and Ford, and they don't realize that it is precisely such forces which are behind their own revolution, financing it, and using it for their own purposes...

---- Jerry Kirk, former Black Revolutionary in 1970 testifying before the House and Senate Internal Security panel.

[Sweejak]

Come to think of it, Dreyer, besides his article, The Spies of Texas, may be a good source for hard info. I say this because he seems to have a keen eye for detecting it. HIs recent article about Cass Sunstein created a lot of interest, netwise.

tdreyer@austin.rr.com

[Gos]

Thanks guys these look like some good leads although it's a shame that I'll probably be unable to find any of this in my school's library. Oh well, I already had to pay 78 bucks for a poli sci book that had a study in it funded by exxon mobil stating that the media was liberal so what's another 12 bucks for a book that doesn't suck imperialist dong.

[anonymoose]

You can also get books via interlibrary loan. If you search for a title on worldcat you can find the closest library that has it and either go there or have it sent to you.

http://www.worldcat.org/

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Archive.org has something that might be of interest to your research

http://www.archive.org/details/FbiSecre ... kCommunity

And I'll bet you can find the Churchill book floating around the Web if you search a bit....

[Gos]

Thanks Moose and Secrets. Bumping for higher knowledge.

[Gos]

bump for the glory of the slack

[American Dream]

Here's another good article:


Intelligence or Interference? COINTELPRO & the Black Panther Party