I am so grateful to all (14,500) of you who have subscribed to this Copaganda Newsletter over the years and excited to say that the official launch of my book Copaganda is two weeks away!
Just purchased the book at Comma Books. Looking forward to reading it and (hopefully) attending your book release event in the Bay Area. Keep up the great work!
Hey Alec! I am a history and social sciences teacher in a magnet program for accelerated learners (grades 7-12) in Des Moines, Iowa and know for sure that we could get a lot more than fifty students/parents/community members to attend a book talk at my school if you came to town. Is this something in which you would be interested?
There's an amazing bookstore in Miami called Books and Books that I think would love to have you and if it gets too big the event could come to my woke AF church right down the road. I'd love for you to come to Florida!
Picked up my preordered copy from my local indie bookstore today. Very excited to dig in!
I asked the owner, Matt, if they’d be interested in hosting a book event, and he said they would. This is The Bookstore in Lenox, MA, not all that far from Troy, NY, where I see you’ll be on May 3. Or if you’re looking for a reason to visit the Berkshires on some other date, I could put you in touch with Matt and reach out to local organizations that might want to help promote the event.
Thanks, Alec, for the heads' up! I've sent "Usual Cruelty" to friends across the country, shared some of its insights with one I hope will become a next state attorney general, and with a friend who is serving compound life sentences in a southern prison. I will be doing the same with "Copaganda"--and have already started the purchase chain west coast. For the interim, I'll be sniffing around the Boulder/Denver area to see what I can come up with in terms of attendance for an event here.
Hi Alec, I was hoping you could send me a copy please, I did buy usual cruelty, I am not employed at the moment I would love a copy I follow you I've spent a lot of decades and prison a really appreciate it thank you
Aaronson, Trevor. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Ig Publishing Brooklyn New York 2013
Exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.
Bari, Judi. TIMBER WARS. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.
The F.B.I. attempted to stop the political activity of Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney by exploding a
bomb under their car. Daryl Cherney and Judi Bari filed a Civil lawsuit
against the FBI and Oakland police. A jury awarded them $4.4 million
Looks at the evidence for the F.B.I. assassination of Malcolm X.
Cashill,Jack, Sanders,James. FIRST STRIKE Thomas Nelson Press, 2003
Overwhelming evidence presented by Dr. Cashill on the downing of TWA
Flight 800 by a missle over Long Island and the ensuing cover-up by FBI
agents.One of my favorite books. see their documentary about the same
subject called SILENCED below in video links
Charns, Alexander. CLOAK AND GAVEL. University of Illinois Press. 1992.
After reviewing thousands of pages of FBI documents the attorney author
exposes the FBI illegal phone tapping of the Supreme Court and how the
FBI fix court cases and work behind the scenes to get "their man"
appointed to the Supreme Court. Written by a lawyer active in Human
Rights.
Churchill, Ward. AGENTS OF REPRESSION. South End Press, 1988.
Professor Churchill gives first hand accounts of F.B.I. death squad
activities. This book is a classic and is a must read along with THE
COINTELPRO PAPERS
Churchill, Ward. THE COINTELPRO PAPERS. South End Press, 1990.
Explores how the F.B.I. disrupts legitimate political activities and engage in Death Squad activities.
Criley, Richard. THE F.B.I. VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT. First Amendment Foundation, 1990.
Looks at the destruction of the First Amendment by the F.B.I.
Davis, John. MAFIA KINGFISH: CARLOS MARCELLO AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F.
KENNEDY. McGraw-Hill, 1989.
A must read book in understanding how the FBI has used the Mafia to carry out the assassination of President Kennedy.
De Camp, John. THE FRANKLIN COVERUP. AWT Publishers, 1992.
A former Republican state senator from Nebraska writes about a
pedophile ring involved in the kidnaping, sexual torture and murder of
children that went all the way to the Bush White House.
Attorney DeCamp discusses the FBI role in the coverup of this case and
the murder of a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the
pedophile ring.This book will keep you awake at night and is an active
barometer for evil indexing how the FBI crime family operates.
Dempsey, James X. and David Cole. TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION: SACRIFICING CIVIL
LIBERTIES IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Los Angeles, CA: First Amendment
Foundation, 1999. Examines FBI campaign of terror to undermine civil
liberties. Attorney Dempsey worked for Congressman Don Edwards who was
a former FBI agent.
Diamond, Sigmund. COMPROMISED CAMPUS. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Professor Diamond attempts to get F.B.I. files showing collaboration
between F.B.I. agents and professors at universities from 1945-1955.
The FBI created the Patriot Act , in part, because of this book.
Donner, Frank. PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE. University of California Press, 1990.
Looks at the death squad collaboration between local police and F.B.I. agents to stifle the Bill of Rights.
Dwyer, James. TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD. Diane publishers 1997.
The most important book you will read on understanding FBI agents Floyd
and Anticev creating the 1993 terrorist act at the World Trade Center.
This book lays out in detail how the FBI engineered
the 1993 World Trade Center explosion.
Edmonds, Sibel D Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir
2012 Sibel D Edmonds publisher
In this startling new memoir, former FBI agent/analyst Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded.
Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy. THE FALL OF PAN AM 103. G.B. Putnam's Sons, 1990.
Oliver Revell was the number 2 man at the F.B.I. until he was demoted
by F.B.I. Director William Sessions to the Dallas Field Office. His son
Chris Revell had tickets for Pan Am 103, but he changed his flight two days before the plane
exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. See Ross Gelbspan's book, BREAK-INS,
DEATH THREATS AND THE FBI to get a fuller picture of Oliver Revell.
Flannery, Greg . REACH OUT AND TAP SOMEONE . In These Times Magazine
March 1989 issue
This article appeared in the March issue of the national publication IN THESE TIMES.
It details the massive illegal FBI wiretap program
placed on a US President Congress, Judges, people of color, local politicians during the 1970's thru the 1980's. This was before the Patriot Act.
More important it details how FBI agents working with local police were committing voter fraud and arson.
Foerstel, Herbert. SURVEILLANCE IN THE STACKS. Greenwood Press, 1991.
Looks at attempts by the F.B.I. to get librarians to spy on the American public .The FBI created the Library Clauses in the Patriot Act because of this book.
Gallagher, Dorothy. ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES. Penguin Books, 1988.
The F.B.I. utilized the Mafia to carry out its executions against Presidents and political activists from 1930 through 2000.
Carlos Tresca was one of their victims.
Gelbspan, Ross. BREAK- INS, DEATH THREATS, AND THE F.B.I. South End Press, 1991.
This Pulitzer Prize winning reporter formerly with the Boston Globe,
details the F.B.I. death squad collaboration with the death squads in
El Salvador and their attacks upon American groups opposed to those
death squads.
Glick, Brian. WAR AT HOME. South End Press, 1989.
Attorney Glick details the F.B.I.’s covert war against political activists.
Goulet, Donald Chesuncook Author House 2008
Autobiography of a FBI agent plagued by mental illness.
Hoffman, David. THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR. Feral
House, 1998.
Contains detailed evidence about the FBI alliance with the terrorist
underworld, and how FBI agent provocateurs are behind many of the
current bombings that have plagued the United States since the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Some current thinking has FBI agents creating these
acts to fill the void caused by the downfall of communism and replacing
communism with the new boogeyman Islam.
Holland, Max . Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat
Deep Throat FBI Supervisor Mark Felt, the number two guy in the FBI during Watergate, was leaking, not out of concern for public good but rather because he was angry he was not getting the top spot in the bureau
University Press Kansas 2012
Hougan, Jim. SPOOKS. William Morrow, 1978.
Important book detailing the life of former F.B.I. agent Robert Maheux
and his relationship with the Mafia. Groundbreaking book in
understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia, using it to carry out
assassinations on President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and others.
Maheux was the liason between the Mafia and the FBI when the FBI assassinated President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Kaiser, Marty . Odyssey of an Eavesdropper( My Life in electronic
countermeasures and my battle against the FBI) W Carroll & Graf 2005
Author exposes wiretapping crimes committed by FBI agents as well as
Business Fraud. He built the wiretapping devices for FBI agents that
were later used against people like Martin Luther King and public officials.After exposing FBI kickback schemes to Congress the author became a target of retaliation by FBI agents. see http://www.martykaiser.com/odyssey2.htm
Keith, Jim. OK BOMB. Illuminate, 1996.
Explores FBI coverup in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
Kelly, John F. TAINTING EVIDENCE. The Free Press 1998. The book is
based on testimony of FBI lab Whistleblower Dr. Frederick Whitehurst ,
an employee of the FBI for 17 years. Shows how bad the FBI Lab is run.
Dr. Whitehurst was the chemist who analyzed Timothy McVeigh's clothes
for traces of ammonium nitrate and was removed from the case when he
Looks at the FBI's collaboration in Boston with the Mafia and Irish Mob
between 1960 and 2001 in which they collaborated in the murder of 21
women,children and men. Important book showing how the FBI uses the
Mafia to commit political and other assassinations .see
Lindauer, Susan Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq
Susan Lindauer publisher 2010
More evidence showing the FBI, CIA and other government agencies created 911.
What if the government decided to invent a great lie to justify a disastrous war and a questionable anti-terrorism policy? What would happen to the people who know the truth? EXTREME PREJUDICE delivers an explosive, high tension expose of the real facts surrounding the CIA's advance warnings of 9/11 and an insider's look at Pre-War Intelligence, told by one of the very few U.S. Assets covering Iraq before the War.
McGhee , Millie WHAT'S DONE IN THE DARK
Allen Morris 2005
The author is a afro american relative of FBI Director J Edgar Hoover
who is successful in presenting evidence that FBI Director Hoover is part black.
The book details the research conducted by Ms McGhee and how FBI agents tried to stop her from writing the book. Photographs show reunion of white and black relatives united by the research in this book. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover was the descendant of Mississippi slaves.
Melanson, Phillip. THE MURKIN CONSPIRACY.
Praeger, 1989.
Professor Melanson looks at the F.B.I.’s role in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melanson, Phillip. THE ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.
Shapolsky, 1991.
Professor Melanson is in charge of the Robert Kennedy archives at the University of Massachusetts. He details the F.B.I.’s role as one of the principal architects in the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Messerschmidt, Jim. THE TRIAL OF LEONARD PELTIER.
South End Press, 1983.
Looks at the miscarriage of justice in the F.B.I.’s handling of the Leonard Peltier case.
Morrow, Robert First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy
New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992)
Oklahoma City Bombing Investigative Committee. THE FINAL REPORT.2001.
The book providing evidence of FBI involvement in the Oklahoma City
Bombing .
Navasky, Victor. INVESTIGATING THE F.B.I.
Doubleday, 1973.
Contains material presented at Princeton University in 1971 investigating
crimes committed by the FBI.
Neff, James. MOBBED UP.
Dell Publishers 1988.
The FBI collaboration with the Mafia.
Nelson, Jack. THE F.B.I. AND THE BERRIGANS.
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972.
Looks at F.B.I. targeting Nobel Peace Prize nominee Phil Berrigan and his brother, Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan.
Olsen, Jack. LAST MAN STANDING: THE TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF GERONIMO PRATT.
Doubleday, 2000
Looks at how FBI agents framed Geronimo Pratt, a Vietnam
vet who spent over 25 years in prison before a judge released him
saying he was innocent and framed by FBI agents.
Roz Payne , Vermont filmaker has issued a 4 DVD collection of her films
including an interview with retired FBI agent Wesley Swearingen who was part of the FBI Racial Squad in San Fransisco that put Pratt in prison
Attorney Pepper represented James Earl Ray in his bid for a new trial
and won a landmark case in civil court in December 1999 for the Martin
Luther King Jr. family. The jury in the case concluded that F.B.I.agents
was involved in the assassination of King. His book details our
government’s involvement and provides photographic evidence of the
F.B.I.’s role in this assassination.
Pepper,William. ACT OF STATE: THE EXECUTION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING
Verso Press, 2003
The evidence from the 1999 Civil Trial in Memphis brought by the King
family in which the jury concluded FBI agents were principal architects
in the assassination of Martin Luther King. Written by the trial
attorney William Pepper.
see
Powers, Richard Gid. SECRECY AND POWER.
Free Press, 1987.
A biography of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his quest for power.
Powers, Tyrone. EYES TO MY SOUL.
Majority Press, 1996.
Professor Powers an afro-american, talks about his 9 years working as
an F.B.I. agent, and the racism in the FBI . Powers discusses the FBI
FRUHMENSCHEN program set up in the 1920's thru 2010 to target black
politicians in sting operations without cause because the FBI feels
blacks are incpable of governing.
Ranalli, Ralph. DEADLY ALLIANCE.
Harper Torch, 2001
Boston Globe reporter Ralph Rannali exposes FBI collaboration with the
Boston Mafia . President Bush asserted Executive Privilege in 2002 preventing
Congress from seeing the Federal Prosecutor’s Investigative files on this case.
Robbins, Natalie. ALIEN INK.
William Morrow, 1992.
Ms. Robbins acquired the F.B.I. files on major writers and artists of the 20th century. She examines F.B.I. agents targeting them and their freedom of expression.
Rosenfeld, Seth, The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover 2012
Schultz, Bud and Ruth. IT DID HAPPEN HERE.
University of California Press, 1989.
Contains interviews with human rights activists who survived the F.B.I.
Schultz, Bud and Ruth. THE PRICE OF DISSENT.
University of California Press , 2001
The sequel to IT DID HAPPEN HERE with more interviews with civil rights activists , union organizers and anti-war protestors who survived FBI attacks.
Seymour, Sheri. COMMITTEE OF THE STATES.
Self-published, 1989.
The F.B.I. infiltrated the California Militia 10 years before the Oklahoma City bombing. The book illustrates how the F.B.I. to infiltrate the group and get it to make bombs.
Shows how FBI used an agent provocteur to get Timothy McVeigh to make a bomb and drive the truck into the Oklahoma Federal Building.
Sharkey, Joe. ABOVE SUSPICION.
Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Looks at the F.B.I. coverup FBI agent Mark Putnam, who murdered his informant after he got her pregnant.
FBI agent Putnam was eventually sentenced to prison for the murder .
The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 Page FBI File and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties
Suarez, Manuel. REQUIEM ON CERRO MARAVILLA.
Waterfront Press,
Looks at F.B.I. collaboration with local police in the arrest, handcuffing, and death squad execution of two teenagers in Puerto Rico.
Summers, Anthony. OFFICIAL AND CONFIDENTIAL.
G.B. Putnam and Sons
This is the book on which the PBS Frontline documentary about J. Edgar Hoover and his friendship with the Mafia .
Swearingen, Wesley. F.B.I. Secrets: An Agents Expose
South End Press 1994
Swearingen is a FBI agent was a member of the FBI San Fransisco Office racial Squad.
Swearingen,Wesley, To Kill a President: Finally – an FBI Agent Rips Aside the Veil of Secrecy that Killed JFK
2006
According to Swearingen, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in assassinating Kennedy as was claimed by the FBI, the Warren Commission and other investigating bodies. Instead, he argues that rogue CIA agents acting in concert with the mafia and certain Cuban exiles plotted to kill Kennedy. Swearingen contends that the conspiracy was covered up by the FBI, an effort that continues to this day through the agency's unwillingness to disclose key details about the events surrounding Kennedy's death. see https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 22281.html
Theoharis, Athan. THE F.B.I. Garland Publishers, 1994.
Professor Theoharis has compiled a comprehensive listing of books and articles about the F.B.I. up to 1994.
Thomas, Kenn. THE OCTOPUS. Feral House, 1996.
Investigates the F.B.I.’s role in the killing of investigative reporter Danny Casolero while he was investigating the October Surprise.
Turner, William. THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY. Thunder Mouth Press, 1993.
Written by a former F.B.I. agent, it looks at the F.B.I.’s involvement in the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Turner, William. REARVIEW MIRROR foreword by Oliver Stone. Penmarin Books CA 2001.
More updated information on FBI involvement in President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Assassination written by a former FBI agent.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. WHO IS GUARDING THE GUARDIANS? A Report on Police
Death Squad activities. 1981.
Williams, Dennis O. Fidelity Bravery Integrity No Way! Dorrance Publishing Company 2009
In 1979 FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dennis O. Williams moved across the country when he was promoted from the FBI’s Los Angeles Division to a supervisory position at FBI Headquarters. Soon after his arrival, Williams discovered that the mover had defrauded the FBI by billing for a higher weight of his household goods than actually existed. As Williams pursued the matter, he discovered a cover-up at FBI HQ; his attempts to expose this conspiracy resulted in his receiving threats and becoming the subject of retaliation. Though an investigation by the FBI Washington Field Office demonstrated that Williams was correct in his suspicions, the cover-ups continued for decades, eventually leading to a conspiracy to deceive the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding an inquiry into the involvement of Thomas J. Pickard.
Pickard was the acting director of the FBI when 9/11 occurred, despite Williams’ repeated warnings to the White House that Pickard did not have the integrity for such a position. The 9/11 Commission report reflects that the Phoenix Division of the FBI produced a memorandum dated July 10, 2001, advising FBI HQ that an inordinate number of supporters of Osama Bin Laden had attended civil aviation universities and colleges and would be in a position to conduct terror activity against civil aviation targets. Williams believes that Pickard’s testimony that no managers at FBI headquarters saw the Phoenix memo before September 11 constitutes a red flag indicating a conspiracy to defraud the 9/11 Commission.
Williams , Kristian
Our Enemies in Blue Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)
South End Press 2007
Wiener, Jon. GIMME SOME TRUTH. University of California Press, 1999.
Professor Wiener looks at the 14 year battle with the F.B.I. to get them to release their files on John Lennon.How many rock stars has the FBI assassinated?
Wise, David TIGER TRAP America’s Secret Spy War With China
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.2011
Looks at how FBI agents were manipulated by Chinese spies after FBI agents started having sex with their Chinese informants
Hello, having noticed your widespread use of the term, we were wondering if you were familiar with our 2011 publication Copaganda: Why the Constitution Doesn't Apply to You?
We share similar views on this, glad this idea is gaining traction.
Congratulations!! This is exciting! Please consider coming to Minneapolis or Saint Paul, MN! Winters are long. We Northerners are avid readers, and people here need the information you’re sharing.
Your book is waiting for me at Avant Garden Cafe & Books in Anoka (I preordered twice!). They release my copy on April 15th, in 4 days. That’s how excited I am to read your book, Alec.
Please, don’t give $ to fascist Bezos. Any bookstore will order books for us. Then we keep our money in our own communities, and support small business.
I'm a Seattle-based YouTube video essayist (Skip Intro on YouTube). I've worked on a series of videos over the past 5 years under the topic of copaganda, investigating their place at the intersection of entertainment and the PR branding they do for police departments.
I see that you have a tentative tour date in Seattle, but I'd love to help with any kind of organizing around the event. I think that I could be a valuable addition to the team and could help drive turnout.
Just purchased the book at Comma Books. Looking forward to reading it and (hopefully) attending your book release event in the Bay Area. Keep up the great work!
Can't wait to read this!
Hey Alec! I am a history and social sciences teacher in a magnet program for accelerated learners (grades 7-12) in Des Moines, Iowa and know for sure that we could get a lot more than fifty students/parents/community members to attend a book talk at my school if you came to town. Is this something in which you would be interested?
There's an amazing bookstore in Miami called Books and Books that I think would love to have you and if it gets too big the event could come to my woke AF church right down the road. I'd love for you to come to Florida!
Will you be selling copies of the book at the NYC event on 4/7?
Alec, I am wondering if you have any tour dates in New Jersey and if you would consider adding one, should it be offered?
Picked up my preordered copy from my local indie bookstore today. Very excited to dig in!
I asked the owner, Matt, if they’d be interested in hosting a book event, and he said they would. This is The Bookstore in Lenox, MA, not all that far from Troy, NY, where I see you’ll be on May 3. Or if you’re looking for a reason to visit the Berkshires on some other date, I could put you in touch with Matt and reach out to local organizations that might want to help promote the event.
My bookstore won’t release the book until April 15th. You got lucky!!!
I used to work there, so I pulled some strings.
Just bought the book from Comma--can't wait to read! I'm going to see if we can find a way for you to come to Honolulu.
Thanks, Alec, for the heads' up! I've sent "Usual Cruelty" to friends across the country, shared some of its insights with one I hope will become a next state attorney general, and with a friend who is serving compound life sentences in a southern prison. I will be doing the same with "Copaganda"--and have already started the purchase chain west coast. For the interim, I'll be sniffing around the Boulder/Denver area to see what I can come up with in terms of attendance for an event here.
Hi Alec, I was hoping you could send me a copy please, I did buy usual cruelty, I am not employed at the moment I would love a copy I follow you I've spent a lot of decades and prison a really appreciate it thank you
Thanks for all you good work in taking a leadership role exposing COPAGANDA
I want to pass on the research of Cecil Mathews
Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image
Branding Hoover's FBI How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America
by Matthew Cecil
also the work of Dirk Gibson
A quantitative description of FBI public relations
Dirk C. Gibson
- Public Relations Review Vol. 23, Iss: 1, pp 11-30
READING LIST
annotated bibliography
Aaronson, Trevor. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Ig Publishing Brooklyn New York 2013
Exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.
Bari, Judi. TIMBER WARS. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.
The F.B.I. attempted to stop the political activity of Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney by exploding a
bomb under their car. Daryl Cherney and Judi Bari filed a Civil lawsuit
against the FBI and Oakland police. A jury awarded them $4.4 million
dollars in 2003. see http://www.judibari.org
Bowen Roger. INNOCENCE IS NOT ENOUGH: The Life and Death of Herbert Norman
New York USA M.E. Sharpe Inc 1988
Looks at FBI assassination of Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt.
Buitrago, Ann Mari. F.B.I. FILES. Grove Press, 1981.
Covers the procedures for obtaining and interpreting your F.B.I. file.
Burnham, David. ABOVE THE LAW. Scribner, 1996.
Looks at secret deals and fixing of cases by the Justice Department for corporations.
Burnham was the New York Times reporter who broke the story about New York City cop Serpico and Police corruption.
He was the reporter on route to meet Karen Silkwood when she was found murdered. Read his other book A LAW UNTO ITSELF.
It details how FBI agents collaborate with the IRS to target political activists.
see his important website about the FBI
here http://trac.syr.edu/
Burnham, David A LAW UNTO ITSELF Vintage January 30, 1991 ISBN-10: 0679732837
Exposes FBI agents using the IRS to cripple political activists.
Buttino, Frank. A SPECIAL AGENT. William Morrow, 1993.
Investigates F.B.I. attacks on gay FBI agents .
This book is written by a FBI agent who is gay. It details how other FBI
agents tormented him .
Carson, Clayborne. MALCOLM X: THE F.B.I. FILE. Carroll & Graf, 1991.
Looks at the evidence for the F.B.I. assassination of Malcolm X.
Cashill,Jack, Sanders,James. FIRST STRIKE Thomas Nelson Press, 2003
Overwhelming evidence presented by Dr. Cashill on the downing of TWA
Flight 800 by a missle over Long Island and the ensuing cover-up by FBI
agents.One of my favorite books. see their documentary about the same
subject called SILENCED below in video links
Charns, Alexander. CLOAK AND GAVEL. University of Illinois Press. 1992.
After reviewing thousands of pages of FBI documents the attorney author
exposes the FBI illegal phone tapping of the Supreme Court and how the
FBI fix court cases and work behind the scenes to get "their man"
appointed to the Supreme Court. Written by a lawyer active in Human
Rights.
Churchill, Ward. AGENTS OF REPRESSION. South End Press, 1988.
Professor Churchill gives first hand accounts of F.B.I. death squad
activities. This book is a classic and is a must read along with THE
COINTELPRO PAPERS
Churchill, Ward. THE COINTELPRO PAPERS. South End Press, 1990.
Explores how the F.B.I. disrupts legitimate political activities and engage in Death Squad activities.
Criley, Richard. THE F.B.I. VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT. First Amendment Foundation, 1990.
Looks at the destruction of the First Amendment by the F.B.I.
Davis, John. MAFIA KINGFISH: CARLOS MARCELLO AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F.
KENNEDY. McGraw-Hill, 1989.
A must read book in understanding how the FBI has used the Mafia to carry out the assassination of President Kennedy.
De Camp, John. THE FRANKLIN COVERUP. AWT Publishers, 1992.
A former Republican state senator from Nebraska writes about a
pedophile ring involved in the kidnaping, sexual torture and murder of
children that went all the way to the Bush White House.
Attorney DeCamp discusses the FBI role in the coverup of this case and
the murder of a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the
pedophile ring.This book will keep you awake at night and is an active
barometer for evil indexing how the FBI crime family operates.
Dempsey, James X. and David Cole. TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION: SACRIFICING CIVIL
LIBERTIES IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Los Angeles, CA: First Amendment
Foundation, 1999. Examines FBI campaign of terror to undermine civil
liberties. Attorney Dempsey worked for Congressman Don Edwards who was
a former FBI agent.
Diamond, Sigmund. COMPROMISED CAMPUS. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Professor Diamond attempts to get F.B.I. files showing collaboration
between F.B.I. agents and professors at universities from 1945-1955.
The FBI created the Patriot Act , in part, because of this book.
Donner, Frank. PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE. University of California Press, 1990.
Looks at the death squad collaboration between local police and F.B.I. agents to stifle the Bill of Rights.
Dwyer, James. TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD. Diane publishers 1997.
The most important book you will read on understanding FBI agents Floyd
and Anticev creating the 1993 terrorist act at the World Trade Center.
This book lays out in detail how the FBI engineered
the 1993 World Trade Center explosion.
Edmonds, Sibel D Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir
2012 Sibel D Edmonds publisher
In this startling new memoir, former FBI agent/analyst Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded.
Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy. THE FALL OF PAN AM 103. G.B. Putnam's Sons, 1990.
Oliver Revell was the number 2 man at the F.B.I. until he was demoted
by F.B.I. Director William Sessions to the Dallas Field Office. His son
Chris Revell had tickets for Pan Am 103, but he changed his flight two days before the plane
exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. See Ross Gelbspan's book, BREAK-INS,
DEATH THREATS AND THE FBI to get a fuller picture of Oliver Revell.
Flannery, Greg . REACH OUT AND TAP SOMEONE . In These Times Magazine
March 1989 issue
This article appeared in the March issue of the national publication IN THESE TIMES.
It details the massive illegal FBI wiretap program
placed on a US President Congress, Judges, people of color, local politicians during the 1970's thru the 1980's. This was before the Patriot Act.
More important it details how FBI agents working with local police were committing voter fraud and arson.
see
http://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-1989mar22-00012
Foerstel, Herbert. SURVEILLANCE IN THE STACKS. Greenwood Press, 1991.
Looks at attempts by the F.B.I. to get librarians to spy on the American public .The FBI created the Library Clauses in the Patriot Act because of this book.
Gallagher, Dorothy. ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES. Penguin Books, 1988.
The F.B.I. utilized the Mafia to carry out its executions against Presidents and political activists from 1930 through 2000.
Carlos Tresca was one of their victims.
Gelbspan, Ross. BREAK- INS, DEATH THREATS, AND THE F.B.I. South End Press, 1991.
This Pulitzer Prize winning reporter formerly with the Boston Globe,
details the F.B.I. death squad collaboration with the death squads in
El Salvador and their attacks upon American groups opposed to those
death squads.
Glick, Brian. WAR AT HOME. South End Press, 1989.
Attorney Glick details the F.B.I.’s covert war against political activists.
Goulet, Donald Chesuncook Author House 2008
Autobiography of a FBI agent plagued by mental illness.
Hoffman, David. THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR. Feral
House, 1998.
Contains detailed evidence about the FBI alliance with the terrorist
underworld, and how FBI agent provocateurs are behind many of the
current bombings that have plagued the United States since the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Some current thinking has FBI agents creating these
acts to fill the void caused by the downfall of communism and replacing
communism with the new boogeyman Islam.
Holland, Max . Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat
Deep Throat FBI Supervisor Mark Felt, the number two guy in the FBI during Watergate, was leaking, not out of concern for public good but rather because he was angry he was not getting the top spot in the bureau
University Press Kansas 2012
Hougan, Jim. SPOOKS. William Morrow, 1978.
Important book detailing the life of former F.B.I. agent Robert Maheux
and his relationship with the Mafia. Groundbreaking book in
understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia, using it to carry out
assassinations on President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and others.
Maheux was the liason between the Mafia and the FBI when the FBI assassinated President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Kaiser, Marty . Odyssey of an Eavesdropper( My Life in electronic
countermeasures and my battle against the FBI) W Carroll & Graf 2005
Author exposes wiretapping crimes committed by FBI agents as well as
Business Fraud. He built the wiretapping devices for FBI agents that
were later used against people like Martin Luther King and public officials.After exposing FBI kickback schemes to Congress the author became a target of retaliation by FBI agents. see http://www.martykaiser.com/odyssey2.htm
Keith, Jim. OK BOMB. Illuminate, 1996.
Explores FBI coverup in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.
Kelly, John F. TAINTING EVIDENCE. The Free Press 1998. The book is
based on testimony of FBI lab Whistleblower Dr. Frederick Whitehurst ,
an employee of the FBI for 17 years. Shows how bad the FBI Lab is run.
Dr. Whitehurst was the chemist who analyzed Timothy McVeigh's clothes
for traces of ammonium nitrate and was removed from the case when he
did not find any bomb residue.
see
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php ... Itemid=108
Lehr, Dick & O'Neill, Gerard. BLACK MASS.
Public Affairs, 2000.
Looks at the FBI's collaboration in Boston with the Mafia and Irish Mob
between 1960 and 2001 in which they collaborated in the murder of 21
women,children and men. Important book showing how the FBI uses the
Mafia to commit political and other assassinations .see
Lindauer, Susan Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq
Susan Lindauer publisher 2010
More evidence showing the FBI, CIA and other government agencies created 911.
What if the government decided to invent a great lie to justify a disastrous war and a questionable anti-terrorism policy? What would happen to the people who know the truth? EXTREME PREJUDICE delivers an explosive, high tension expose of the real facts surrounding the CIA's advance warnings of 9/11 and an insider's look at Pre-War Intelligence, told by one of the very few U.S. Assets covering Iraq before the War.
McGhee , Millie WHAT'S DONE IN THE DARK
Allen Morris 2005
The author is a afro american relative of FBI Director J Edgar Hoover
who is successful in presenting evidence that FBI Director Hoover is part black.
The book details the research conducted by Ms McGhee and how FBI agents tried to stop her from writing the book. Photographs show reunion of white and black relatives united by the research in this book. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover was the descendant of Mississippi slaves.
Melanson, Phillip. THE MURKIN CONSPIRACY.
Praeger, 1989.
Professor Melanson looks at the F.B.I.’s role in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melanson, Phillip. THE ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.
Shapolsky, 1991.
Professor Melanson is in charge of the Robert Kennedy archives at the University of Massachusetts. He details the F.B.I.’s role as one of the principal architects in the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Messerschmidt, Jim. THE TRIAL OF LEONARD PELTIER.
South End Press, 1983.
Looks at the miscarriage of justice in the F.B.I.’s handling of the Leonard Peltier case.
Morrow, Robert First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy
New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992)
Oklahoma City Bombing Investigative Committee. THE FINAL REPORT.2001.
The book providing evidence of FBI involvement in the Oklahoma City
Bombing .
Navasky, Victor. INVESTIGATING THE F.B.I.
Doubleday, 1973.
Contains material presented at Princeton University in 1971 investigating
crimes committed by the FBI.
Neff, James. MOBBED UP.
Dell Publishers 1988.
The FBI collaboration with the Mafia.
Nelson, Jack. THE F.B.I. AND THE BERRIGANS.
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972.
Looks at F.B.I. targeting Nobel Peace Prize nominee Phil Berrigan and his brother, Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan.
Olsen, Jack. LAST MAN STANDING: THE TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF GERONIMO PRATT.
Doubleday, 2000
Looks at how FBI agents framed Geronimo Pratt, a Vietnam
vet who spent over 25 years in prison before a judge released him
saying he was innocent and framed by FBI agents.
Roz Payne , Vermont filmaker has issued a 4 DVD collection of her films
including an interview with retired FBI agent Wesley Swearingen who was part of the FBI Racial Squad in San Fransisco that put Pratt in prison
see http://www.newsreel.us/
O’Reilly, Kenneth. RACIAL MATTERS.
Free Press, 1989.
Professor O’Reilly looks at the FBI file called Racial Matters it is keeping on Black America.
Parenti, Michael. DIRTY TRUTHS. City Lights Books, 1996.
Dr. Parenti looks at the evidence for F.B.I. involvement in the
assassination of labor leader Walter Reuther while he was organizing
protests against the Vietnam War.
It includes the essay “Why the Left is Afraid to look at the Assassination of JFK” .
Pepper , William The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King
Skyhorse Publishing 2016
Martin Luther King was murdered in a conspiracy that was instigated by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Review of William Pepper's Book see
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot- ... er/5544005
Pepper, William. ORDERS TO KILL.
Carroll and Graf, 1995.
Attorney Pepper represented James Earl Ray in his bid for a new trial
and won a landmark case in civil court in December 1999 for the Martin
Luther King Jr. family. The jury in the case concluded that F.B.I.agents
was involved in the assassination of King. His book details our
government’s involvement and provides photographic evidence of the
F.B.I.’s role in this assassination.
Pepper,William. ACT OF STATE: THE EXECUTION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING
Verso Press, 2003
The evidence from the 1999 Civil Trial in Memphis brought by the King
family in which the jury concluded FBI agents were principal architects
in the assassination of Martin Luther King. Written by the trial
attorney William Pepper.
see
Powers, Richard Gid. SECRECY AND POWER.
Free Press, 1987.
A biography of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his quest for power.
Powers, Tyrone. EYES TO MY SOUL.
Majority Press, 1996.
Professor Powers an afro-american, talks about his 9 years working as
an F.B.I. agent, and the racism in the FBI . Powers discusses the FBI
FRUHMENSCHEN program set up in the 1920's thru 2010 to target black
politicians in sting operations without cause because the FBI feels
blacks are incpable of governing.
Ranalli, Ralph. DEADLY ALLIANCE.
Harper Torch, 2001
Boston Globe reporter Ralph Rannali exposes FBI collaboration with the
Boston Mafia . President Bush asserted Executive Privilege in 2002 preventing
Congress from seeing the Federal Prosecutor’s Investigative files on this case.
Robbins, Natalie. ALIEN INK.
William Morrow, 1992.
Ms. Robbins acquired the F.B.I. files on major writers and artists of the 20th century. She examines F.B.I. agents targeting them and their freedom of expression.
Rosenfeld, Seth, The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover 2012
Schultz, Bud and Ruth. IT DID HAPPEN HERE.
University of California Press, 1989.
Contains interviews with human rights activists who survived the F.B.I.
Schultz, Bud and Ruth. THE PRICE OF DISSENT.
University of California Press , 2001
The sequel to IT DID HAPPEN HERE with more interviews with civil rights activists , union organizers and anti-war protestors who survived FBI attacks.
Seymour, Sheri. COMMITTEE OF THE STATES.
Self-published, 1989.
The F.B.I. infiltrated the California Militia 10 years before the Oklahoma City bombing. The book illustrates how the F.B.I. to infiltrate the group and get it to make bombs.
Shows how FBI used an agent provocteur to get Timothy McVeigh to make a bomb and drive the truck into the Oklahoma Federal Building.
Sharkey, Joe. ABOVE SUSPICION.
Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Looks at the F.B.I. coverup FBI agent Mark Putnam, who murdered his informant after he got her pregnant.
FBI agent Putnam was eventually sentenced to prison for the murder .
see . http://betrayedbylovemovie.blogspot.com/
Sherill, Robert First Amendment Felon
Nation Books,
The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 Page FBI File and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties
Suarez, Manuel. REQUIEM ON CERRO MARAVILLA.
Waterfront Press,
Looks at F.B.I. collaboration with local police in the arrest, handcuffing, and death squad execution of two teenagers in Puerto Rico.
Summers, Anthony. OFFICIAL AND CONFIDENTIAL.
G.B. Putnam and Sons
This is the book on which the PBS Frontline documentary about J. Edgar Hoover and his friendship with the Mafia .
Swearingen, Wesley. F.B.I. Secrets: An Agents Expose
South End Press 1994
Swearingen is a FBI agent was a member of the FBI San Fransisco Office racial Squad.
Swearingen,Wesley, To Kill a President: Finally – an FBI Agent Rips Aside the Veil of Secrecy that Killed JFK
2006
According to Swearingen, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in assassinating Kennedy as was claimed by the FBI, the Warren Commission and other investigating bodies. Instead, he argues that rogue CIA agents acting in concert with the mafia and certain Cuban exiles plotted to kill Kennedy. Swearingen contends that the conspiracy was covered up by the FBI, an effort that continues to this day through the agency's unwillingness to disclose key details about the events surrounding Kennedy's death. see https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 22281.html
Theoharis, Athan. THE F.B.I. Garland Publishers, 1994.
Professor Theoharis has compiled a comprehensive listing of books and articles about the F.B.I. up to 1994.
Thomas, Kenn. THE OCTOPUS. Feral House, 1996.
Investigates the F.B.I.’s role in the killing of investigative reporter Danny Casolero while he was investigating the October Surprise.
Turner, William. THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY. Thunder Mouth Press, 1993.
Written by a former F.B.I. agent, it looks at the F.B.I.’s involvement in the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Turner, William. REARVIEW MIRROR foreword by Oliver Stone. Penmarin Books CA 2001.
More updated information on FBI involvement in President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Assassination written by a former FBI agent.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. WHO IS GUARDING THE GUARDIANS? A Report on Police
Death Squad activities. 1981.
Williams, Dennis O. Fidelity Bravery Integrity No Way! Dorrance Publishing Company 2009
In 1979 FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dennis O. Williams moved across the country when he was promoted from the FBI’s Los Angeles Division to a supervisory position at FBI Headquarters. Soon after his arrival, Williams discovered that the mover had defrauded the FBI by billing for a higher weight of his household goods than actually existed. As Williams pursued the matter, he discovered a cover-up at FBI HQ; his attempts to expose this conspiracy resulted in his receiving threats and becoming the subject of retaliation. Though an investigation by the FBI Washington Field Office demonstrated that Williams was correct in his suspicions, the cover-ups continued for decades, eventually leading to a conspiracy to deceive the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding an inquiry into the involvement of Thomas J. Pickard.
Pickard was the acting director of the FBI when 9/11 occurred, despite Williams’ repeated warnings to the White House that Pickard did not have the integrity for such a position. The 9/11 Commission report reflects that the Phoenix Division of the FBI produced a memorandum dated July 10, 2001, advising FBI HQ that an inordinate number of supporters of Osama Bin Laden had attended civil aviation universities and colleges and would be in a position to conduct terror activity against civil aviation targets. Williams believes that Pickard’s testimony that no managers at FBI headquarters saw the Phoenix memo before September 11 constitutes a red flag indicating a conspiracy to defraud the 9/11 Commission.
Williams , Kristian
Our Enemies in Blue Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)
South End Press 2007
Wiener, Jon. GIMME SOME TRUTH. University of California Press, 1999.
Professor Wiener looks at the 14 year battle with the F.B.I. to get them to release their files on John Lennon.How many rock stars has the FBI assassinated?
Wise, David TIGER TRAP America’s Secret Spy War With China
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.2011
Looks at how FBI agents were manipulated by Chinese spies after FBI agents started having sex with their Chinese informants
Hello, having noticed your widespread use of the term, we were wondering if you were familiar with our 2011 publication Copaganda: Why the Constitution Doesn't Apply to You?
We share similar views on this, glad this idea is gaining traction.
https://www.amazon.com/Copaganda-Why-Constitution-Doesnt-Apply/dp/0615511708
Congratulations!! This is exciting! Please consider coming to Minneapolis or Saint Paul, MN! Winters are long. We Northerners are avid readers, and people here need the information you’re sharing.
Your book is waiting for me at Avant Garden Cafe & Books in Anoka (I preordered twice!). They release my copy on April 15th, in 4 days. That’s how excited I am to read your book, Alec.
How do you want me to buy it? I can order on Amazon now or go ask my local bookstore to order it.
Local bookstore. Go to indiebound.org to find one or use the store he mentions above.
Please, don’t give $ to fascist Bezos. Any bookstore will order books for us. Then we keep our money in our own communities, and support small business.
Any news about a Bay Area event? Thank you for all your work!
Hi Alec!
I'm a Seattle-based YouTube video essayist (Skip Intro on YouTube). I've worked on a series of videos over the past 5 years under the topic of copaganda, investigating their place at the intersection of entertainment and the PR branding they do for police departments.
I see that you have a tentative tour date in Seattle, but I'd love to help with any kind of organizing around the event. I think that I could be a valuable addition to the team and could help drive turnout.
Please let me know how I can help!
Hello! Here is the info for the Seattle event. Would love you to help bring the community out to the event!!! https://thenewpress.com/events/alec-karakatsanis-on-copaganda-town-hall-seattle