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THE FBI'S SECRET WARS AGAINST . THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND THE7 AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT_ SOUTH END PRESS CLASSICS AGENTS OF REPRESSI ON Agents of Repression The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Second Edition Ward C/yzm/yz'l/ andjz'm Vander Wall South End Press Classics Series Volume 7 South End Press, Cambridge, MA Copyright © 1988, 1990 and 2002 by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall Any properly footnoted quotation of up to 500 sequential words may be used without permission, as long as the total number of words quoted does not exceed 2,000. For longer quotations or for a greater number of to- tal words, please write for permission to South End Press. Cover photos by The Guardian (left) and Kevin Barry McKiernan Cover design and by Ellen Shapiro Editing, design and production by the South End Press collective Printed in Canada on acid-free paper Library of Congress Control Number: 2002106455 South End Press, 7 Brookline Street #1, Cambridge, MA 02139-4146 www.southendpress.org 060504030212345 g3 Table of Contents Dedication vi “Daughter of the Earth: Song for Anna Mae Aquash” by Ellen Klaver vii About the Authors viii Acknowledgements ix Glossary xi Preface to the Classics Edition xvii Introduction: Beyond the Myth 1 Part I: The FBI as Political Police—A Capsule History 1. Birth and Formation 17 2. The COINTELPRO Era 37 3. COINTELPRO—Black Panther Party 63 Part II: A Context of Struggle 4. Why Pine Ridge? 103 5. The Pine Ridge Background 135 Part III: The FBI on Pine Ridge, 1972—76 6. The GOONS, Cable Spliccr, and Garden Plot 181 7. Assassinations and Bad-jacketing 199 8. Informers, Infiltrators, Agents Provocateurs 219 9. The Oglala Firefight 235 10. The Disinformation Campaign 261 11. Perjury and Fabrication of Evidence 287 12. Other Political Abuses of the judicial System 329 Part IV: We Will Remember 13. A Legacy of Repression 353 14. Moving Forward 383 Notes 389 Bibliography 469 Index 477 Dedication This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Micmac warrior woman, assassinated on Pine Ridge, February 1976 and to Naiche Wolf Soldier, strong warrior and good friend who passed into the spirit world as we were writing. It is also offered in memory of the others, many mentioned herein, who have fallen, and with the renewed commitment to the struggles of Leonard Peltier, Geronimo Pratt and the thousands of kindred POWs/political prisoners/fugitives who mark the modern landscape of American “justice.” One day justice will prevail. Daughter of the Earth: Song for Anna Mae Aquash She came down from the North Country, from Canada Where the northern lights shine shimmering above the fir The strength of the continent was deep inside her heart Strength that was needed in these times She came to help the peOple as they struggled to be free From the ones who sought to kill the land for money They said they owned our Mother Earth and called it USA Born of broken treaties and murder Oh Anna Mae, oh Anna Mae I feel your spirit and sometimes I can hear it Saying keep on strong, keep on going on Daughter of the Earth The FBI had told her they would kill her if they could Like so many others before her But she was not afraid of them, her path was clear and true “I am a woman working for my people” So they shot her down and left the body lying in a field Believing in the power of the metal gun But the power lies within the land, it can’t be owned or sold And gives us what survives beyond our lives Oh Anna Mae, oh Anna Mae I feel your spirit and sometimes I can hear it Saying keep on strong, keep on going on Daughter of the Earth Whenever I am frightened I just think of her Her courage in confronting the death machine To live for what sustains us all, to work to keep it whole To die because some want to see it broken Oh Anna Mae, oh Anna Mae They stole your life away but they can’t steal what you had to say To keep on strong, keep on going on Daughter of the Earth Oh Anna Mae, oh Anna Mae I feel your spirit and sometimes I can hear it Saying keep on strong, keep on going on Daughter of the Earth -—-Ellen Klaver vii About the Authors Ward Churchill is coordinator, with Glenn Morris, of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and, with Winona LaDuke, of the Institute for Natural Progress. He has served as a delegate, in Geneva, Havana, and Benghazi, for the International Indian Treaty Council, a United Nations Class II (Human Rights Consultative) Non-Governmental Organization. Churchill has edited Marxism and Native Americans (South End Press, 1983) and coauthored, with Elizabeth Lloyd, Culture versus Economism: Essays on Mancism in the Multicultural Arena (Indigena Press, 1984), as well as authoring some 85 articles and essays. He is also director of the Educational Development Program at the University of Colorado/ Boulder. Jim Vander Wall is a member and co-founder of the Denver Leonard Peltier Support Group. He has been an active supporter of the struggles of Native Peoples for sovereignty since 1974 and has written several articles on the case of Leonard Peltier.
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