This episode of Critical Insights we were joined by author, John Potash, who wrote the FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. This book contains a wealth of names, dates and events detailing the use of COINTELPRO style tactics by the FBI against a generation of leftist political leaders and leftist musicians. Based on 12 years of research and includes over 1,000 endnotes. Sources include over 100 interviews, FOIA-released CIA and FBI documents, court transcripts, and many mainstream media outlets. Book is 192 pages of main text, 100 pages of endnotes, 8 pages of photos (incl. government/court documents) and some more pages of preface, foreword, afterword, and bios.
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COINTELPRO Alive: Malcolm X Grandson, Malcolm el Shabazz, Issues Statement
We Charge Genocide Again! Companion Curriculum for “Operation Ghetto Storm”
“Operation Ghetto Storm”: The New Face of US Fascism
COINTELPRO
SILENCING DISSENT
SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILED STAFF REPORTS ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS – FINAL REPORT BOOK III
THE COINTELPRO PAPERS BY WARD CHURCHILL AND JIM VANDER WALL