| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Canada and the United States

David Cunningham. There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, The Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 366. $27.50.
In the spring of 1971, after radical activists burglarized a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office in Pennsylvania and released confidential information to the media, the public learned that the FBI had for years employed an extensive program of counterintelligence, COINTELPRO, against American citizens. Initially established to undermine the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), COINTELPRO later targeted groups as diverse as the Socialist Worker's Party, the Ku Klux Klan, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panther Party. In this provocative and thoughtful study, sociologist David Cunningham examines this notorious episode of state-sponsored political repression, making extensive use of FBI memos and reports released under the Freedom of Information Act.	1
Counterintelligence—actions such as the mailing of anonymous letters, the use of undercover informants as agents provocateurs, the planting of evidence, and the manipulation of the news media to discredit targeted individuals and groups—was used by the FBI prior to the founding of COINTELPRO, most notably against procommunist and profascist organizations in the 1930s and 1940s. The rationale for counterintelligence was that these groups were linked to foreign governments and thus preemptive measures were needed to insure national security. This justification was again proffered in 1956 when the FBI, with the full acquiescence of the Eisenhower administration, organized COINTELPRO to counter and neutralize CPUSA.	. . .

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