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Agents of Repression
The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party
Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
Pages: 538Edition: Classics Series, Volume 7
ISBN: 0-89608-647-X
Format: cloth
Release Date: 2002-09-01
This book is also available in paper
For those wondering why Bill Clinton could pardon billionaire white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's Counterintelligence Program against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.
Written by a key AIM member and one of its most knowledgeable supporters, Agents of Repression, features one of the best histories of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee. The 1973 attack resulted in Peltier's imprisonment. The book also provides a well-written synthesis of the FBI efforts against the Black Panthers.
This edition, Volume 7 of the South End Press Classics Series, includes a new introduction examining the cases of Leonard Peltier and Anna Mae Aquash and the infiltration of AIM by the FBI. While the FBI seems a less flagrantly violent organization now than in the 1970s, twenty-first century readers will learn why America's political police force remains a threat to those committed to fundamental social change.
“This study gives a chilling account of the government attack against AIM and the Black Panthers, placed in the context of the traditional use of the FBI for domestic political repression. It is a powerful indictment, with far-reaching implications.”—Noam Chomsky
Table of Contents
Preface to the Classics Edition
Introduction Beyond the Myth
Part I: The FBI as Political Police–A Capsule History
1 Birth and Formation
2 The COINTELPRO Era
3 COINTELPRO–Black Panther Party
Part II: A Context of Struggle
4 Why Pine Ridge?
5 The Pine Ridge Background
Part III: The FBI on Pine Ridge, 1972–76
6 The GOONS, Cable Splicer, and Garden Plot
7 Assassinations and Bad-jacketing
8 Informers, Infiltrators, Agents Provocateurs
9 The Oglala Firefight
10 The Disinformation Campaign
11 Perjury and Fabrication of Evidence
12 Other Political Abuses of the Judicial System
Part IV: We Will Remember
13 A Legacy of Repression
14 Moving Forward
Ward Churchill
Click here to view Ward Churchill's full Author PageWard Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists and scholars in North America and a leading analyst of indigenous issues. He is a Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. Churchill serves as Associate Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the institution. He is also co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council.
Churchill’s many books include Marxism and Native Americans, Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North America, The COINTELPRO Papers, Indians R Us?, Agents of Repression, Since Predator Came, and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas. In his lectures and numerous published works, Churchill explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, racism, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, environmental destruction of Indian lands, government repression of political movements, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.
Churchill is also a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (as a Justice/Rapporteur for the for the 1993 International People's Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians), and as an advocate/prosecutor of the First Nations International Tribunal for the Chiefs of Ontario.