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AGENTS OF REPRESSION
The FBI's Secret War Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
South End Press, 1988 ISBN 0-89608-293-8

Assassination, rape, torture, sabotage, infiltration, agents, provocateurs and fabrication of evidence are just a few of the F.B.I.' s tactics that are catalogued in this 500 page exposure of the F.B.I.'s illegal criminal activities. The F.B.I.' s secret deadly war against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement is exposed in this seminal work on the hidden role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Anybody who believes that the F.B.I. had its horns filed when Edgar J. Hoover died, only has to examine what happened at Waco Texas in 1993 to realise that the Leopard can' t change its spots. Churchill and Wall have to be congratulated for writing this meticulous exposure of the F.B.I.'s tactics. The F.B.I. is the United States secret weapon in the governments attempts to keep the lid on internal dissent. The Black Panthers and the American Indian movement were targeted because many blacks and American Indians identified with the aims of these movements.

The 1960' s, 70' s was a period when the American establishments hold on the carotid artery of blacks and minorities was loosened by collective effort.

American ideology was an ideology under siege both in the United States and abroad. While the C.I.A. ran guns, drugs and tortured and murdered at will outside the United States, its domestic counterparts the F.B.I. unleashed and continues to unleash a reign of terror on anybody who dares challenge the American State.

The authors have been able to present a well researched and fascinating account of how the F.B.I. used every illegal trick in the book to entrap, murder, rape and bash all in the name of Uncle Sam.

This is one book every serious activist should get a hold of. Although you may have an intellectual understanding of how the beasts praetorians guards work or you may have come off second best in your conflict with the state, you' ll never understand the depths of depravity of the beasts internal police until you read Agents of Repression.

Although the book's expensive, it's worth every cent you pay for it.

Thank you to Anarres Books for providing the review copy of Agents of Repression.

Order your copy via the net email mailorder@anarres or via snail mail PO Box 150 East Brunswick 3057 Melbourne Australia. Write to them for their catalogue. Look them up in their web site http://www.anarres.org.au

P.S. Just in case you think Agents of Repression is just a catalogue of Churchill' s and Wall' s personal opinions the book includes over 80 pages of notes, an extensive bibliography an extremely useful index and over fifty black and white photographs

This review is by Joe Toscano in the Anarchist Age Weekly Review No 366, 9 September, 1999, Melbourne.

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