Government Repression
This collection contains materials broadly related to government repression. Sub-collections include COINTELPRO - containing both materials on the FBI's program to destroy Left Movements as well as the National Taskforce for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research who led the struggle to expose COINTELPRO attacks on the Black Liberation struggle; Covert Action - a periodical documenting CIA abuses and misdeeds and US military intervention; and Grand Jury - containing materials focused on the use of grand juries as a tool of government repression of Left movements.
Subcollections
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Cointelpro
This collection contains material on the FBI program COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). This program served to disrupt, destroy and infiltrate many progressive organizations during the 60s-70s in the U.S. -
Covert Action Information Bulletin
CovertAction Information Bulletin investigates and exposes CIA, FBI, NSA, military operations, and other forms of US imperialist intervention. -
Grand Jury
This collection contains materials pertaining to the use of grand juries to repress political movements. Resources include historical context, what to do if the FBI shows up and principles of non-collaboration.
Documents
![President to President: On the question of human rights](images/fileicons/webpage.png)
Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The Internet Archive.
![COINTELPRO - Domestic Subverside Warfare: The Case of Clark, et. al. v. The United States](images/thumbnails//29234.jpg)
Publisher: Committee for the Suit Against Government MisconductYear: 1978Format: PamphletCollection: Cointelpro
Pamphlet laying out the background of COINTELPRO and Clark v. USA
![Tip of the Iceberg (May 1981)](images/thumbnails//29233.jpg)
Publisher: Committee for the Suit Against Government MisconductDate: 5/1981Format: PeriodicalCollection: Cointelpro
Clark Plaintiffs Confront FBI; Victory in Pontiac Trial - State's Strategy Defeated; US "Anti-Terrorism": Counterinsurgency of the 80's; US Gov't Escalates Attacks on Black Liberation Movement; Reagan Pardons Cointelpro Criminals; Arab Student Fights Deportation; Zairean CIA Agents in the US; Red Squad Settlement Continues COINTELPRO Cover-up; Committee Targets Struggles for Human Rights; David Truong Appeals Court Decision; Puerto Rican POW Kidnapped by State
![FBI Secret COINTELPRO Documents Against Black Community](images/thumbnails//29229.jpg)
Publisher: National Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & ResearchFormat: MonographCollection: Cointelpro
reproduction of FBI documents.
![The Complete Collection of Political Documents Ripped-off from the FBI Office in Media, PA: March 8, 1971](images/fileicons/webpage.png)
Publisher: WIN MagazineDate: 3/1972Volume Number: Vol. 8 No. 4-5Format: PeriodicalCollection: Cointelpro
The Complete Collection of Political Documents Ripped Off From the FBI Office in Media, PA., March 8, 1971.
![Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro](images/thumbnails//29228.jpg)
Publisher: Human Rights Research Fund, Release 2001Year: 2001Format: MonographCollection: Cointelpro
In Spanish. This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.
![Human Rights in the US: The Unfinished Story of Political Prisoners/Victims](images/thumbnails//29227.jpg)
Publisher: Human Rights Research Fund, Release 2001Year: 2001Format: MonographCollection: Cointelpro
This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.
![Geronimo Ji Jaga from Cointelpro 101 [Video Clip]](images/thumbnails//30457.jpg)
Interviews with Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, Catherine Campbell and others on the Federal Government's targeting of Pratt for his involvement with he Black Panther Party.
![COINTELPRO 101 Trailer](images/thumbnails//30463.jpg)
Cointelpro 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Cointelpro refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
![Laura Whitehorn COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8543.jpg)
Radical activist and former political prisoner/WUO member who was targeted by the federal government.