Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall Black Classic Press 1988, 1990, 2001, 2022, paperback SKU: 9781574782172   The mentality and operational priorities of the FBI have remained constant despite the supposed "reforms" it underwent during the last 1970s.  In light of the Homeland Security Act, a measure which formally sanctions many of the worst abuses in which the Bureau engaged a generation ago, every activist in the country should become intimately acquainted with the experiences of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.   Written by a key AIM member and one of its most knowledgeable supporters, Agents of Repression, features one of the best histories of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee. The 1973 attack resulted in Peltier's imprisonment. The book also provides a well-written synthesis of the FBI efforts against the Black Panthers. The lawlessness wreaked on The Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by agencies of the U.S. government - the murders, as