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- catalog abstract ""COINTELPRO"--An acronym for "Counterintelligence Program"--is the code name the FBI gave to the secret operations aimed at five major social and political protest groups: the Communist party, the Socialist Workers party, the Ku Klux Klan, black nationalist hate groups, and the New Left movement. Spying on America, the first book to chronicle all five of the operations, tells the story of how the FBI, from 1956 until COINTELPRO's exposure in 1971, expanded its domestic surveillance programs and increasingly employed questionable, even unlawful, methods in an effort to disrupt what amounted to virtually our entire social and political protest process. Violations of citizens' constitutional rights were rampant, and the secret operations actually resulted in a number of deaths. At the time, neither the public nor the news media knew anything about COINTELPRO. In vivid detail, Spying on America demonstrates that the system of checks and balances designed to prevent such occurrences was simply not functioning--until an illegal act uncovered the secret activities. The book opens with the daring raid on a Media, Pennsylvania, FBI office by a group that adeptly used its booty--about 1,000 classified documents--to make COINTELPRO operations public. The burglars, who called themselves the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI and with whom the FBI never caught up, used sophisticated techniques releasing copies of incriminating documents to the media at carefully timed intervals. Spying on America draws on newspaper and magazine articles, interviews with many of the people involved, and FBI memos to trace the historical beginnings and operating methods of COINTELPRO against each of the five targeted groups. In vivid detail, the author re-creates the reactions of the bureau--including the subsequent policy changes--as well as the response of the news media and the resulting shift in public attitudes toward the FBI. Finally, Davis looks at the possibility of similar operations in the future. In the context of our current, heightened state of socio-political awareness, it is difficult to comprehend how so many unlawful deeds could have been committed without the public's knowledge. Spying on America makes us conscious of how easily such activities can occur--and in doing so, helps us prevent them from happening again.".
- catalog contributor b3621435.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""COINTELPRO"--An acronym for "Counterintelligence Program"--is the code name the FBI gave to the secret operations aimed at five major social and political protest groups: the Communist party, the Socialist Workers party, the Ku Klux Klan, black nationalist hate groups, and the New Left movement. Spying on America, the first book to chronicle all five of the operations, tells the story of how the FBI, from 1956 until COINTELPRO's exposure in 1971, expanded its domestic surveillance programs and increasingly employed questionable, even unlawful, methods in an effort to disrupt what amounted to virtually our entire social and political protest process. Violations of citizens' constitutional rights were rampant, and the secret operations actually resulted in a number of deaths. At the time, neither the public nor the news media knew anything about COINTELPRO. ".
- catalog description "1. The Media Office Raid: Secret FBI Counterintelligence Becomes Public -- 2. The Communist Party U.S.A. COINTELPRO -- 3. The Socialist Workers Party COINTELPRO -- 4. The White Hate Group COINTELPRO -- 5. The Black Nationalist Hate Group COINTELPRO -- 6. The New Left COINTELPRO -- 7. The End of COINTELPRO?".
- catalog description "In vivid detail, Spying on America demonstrates that the system of checks and balances designed to prevent such occurrences was simply not functioning--until an illegal act uncovered the secret activities. The book opens with the daring raid on a Media, Pennsylvania, FBI office by a group that adeptly used its booty--about 1,000 classified documents--to make COINTELPRO operations public. The burglars, who called themselves the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI and with whom the FBI never caught up, used sophisticated techniques releasing copies of incriminating documents to the media at carefully timed intervals. Spying on America draws on newspaper and magazine articles, interviews with many of the people involved, and FBI memos to trace the historical beginnings and operating methods of COINTELPRO against each of the five targeted groups. ".
- catalog description "In vivid detail, the author re-creates the reactions of the bureau--including the subsequent policy changes--as well as the response of the news media and the resulting shift in public attitudes toward the FBI. Finally, Davis looks at the possibility of similar operations in the future. In the context of our current, heightened state of socio-political awareness, it is difficult to comprehend how so many unlawful deeds could have been committed without the public's knowledge. Spying on America makes us conscious of how easily such activities can occur--and in doing so, helps us prevent them from happening again.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-187) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 192 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Spying on America.".
- catalog identifier "0275934071 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Spying on America.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Praeger,".
- catalog relation "Spying on America.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "364.1/32/0973 20".
- catalog subject "HV8144.F43 D38 1992".
- catalog subject "Political crimes and offenses Investigation United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Political persecution United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Media Office Raid: Secret FBI Counterintelligence Becomes Public -- 2. The Communist Party U.S.A. COINTELPRO -- 3. The Socialist Workers Party COINTELPRO -- 4. The White Hate Group COINTELPRO -- 5. The Black Nationalist Hate Group COINTELPRO -- 6. The New Left COINTELPRO -- 7. The End of COINTELPRO?".
- catalog title "Spying on America : the FBI's domestic counterintelligence program / James Kirkpatrick Davis.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".