Agents of Repression

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 Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, first published in 1988. It describes government campaigns to disrupt the legal political activities of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, especially through actions of the FBI.

This study gives a chilling account of the government attack against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party, placed in the context of the traditional use of the FBI for domestic political repression. It is a powerful indictment, with far–reaching implications concerning the treatment of political activists, especially those that are Black or Native American, and the functioning of our political institutions generally.

— Noam Chomsky,  on back cover

South End Press produced the 'Classics Series' second edition in 2002, 538 pages, ISBN 0-89608-646-1.

Further reading

• Amnesty International, Proposal for a Commission of Inquiry into the Effect of Domestic Intelligence Activities on Criminal Trials in the United States of America (New York, 1987) pdf
• Anderson et al., Voices from Wounded Knee 1973 (Akwesasne Notes, 1974) ISBN 978-0-914-83801-2
• Johanna Brand, The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1978)
• Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Sterling Publishing, 1970,'12). ISBN 978-1-402-79337-0
• Robert Burnette and John Koster, The Road to Wounded Knee (Bantam Books, 1974). ISBN 0-55-308538-7
• Noam Chomsky, Towards a New Cold War (Pantheon Books, 1983) ISBN 978-0-394-51873-2
• Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star (North Point Press, 1984,'97)
• Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins (University of Oklahoma Press, 1969,'88)
• Charles Eastman, The Soul of the Indian (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911) text
• Emma Goldman, Living My Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 1931) text
• Michael Herr, Dispatches (Random House, 1977,'91)
• Bruce E. Johansen and Roberto Maestas, Wasi'chu: The Continuing Indian Wars (Monthly Review Press, 1979) ISBN 0-85-345484-1.
• Peter Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (Viking Penguin, 1983,'92).
• Jim Messerschmidt, The Trial of Leonard Peltier (South End Press, 1983)
• Mari Sandoz, Cheyenne Autumn (University of Nebraska Press, 1953,'05)
• Paul Chaat Smith & Robert Allen Warrior, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (The New Press, 1997)
• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Hearing Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., ), several hearings, 1975-9
• Joel D. Weisman, "About that 'ambush' at Wounded Knee", Columbia Journalism Review, Sep–Oct 1975
• Rex Weyler, Blood of the Land (New Society Publishers, 1982,'08)
• Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (HarperCollins, 1980,'05). ISBN 978-0-060-83865-2.

External links

• Preface to the second edition: Withstanding the Test of Time 
• Excerpts from chapter 9: The Oglala Firefight 
• Excerpts from chapter 12: ...Abuses of the Judicial System 
• More excerpts can be found at: Google Books 
• Publisher webpage: Agents of Repression