FBI COINTELPRO-New Left Targets & Tactics in the Detroit Metro (2)
- Identifier
- FBI_00017
- Title
- FBI COINTELPRO-New Left Targets & Tactics in the Detroit Metro (2)
- Creator
- Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI) & Detroit Field Office
- Description
- 206-page document outlining sustained counterintelligence efforts targeting New Left activists and organizations, particularly those associated with the Communist Party in the Detroit Metro. It details covert tactics such as sending fictitious anti-Communist letters to the media and employers, aimed at discrediting or costing individuals their jobs, as well as disrupting anti-war demonstrations and meetings. The document highlights operations against figures like Ernest Goodman, Claude Lightfoot, Judge George Crockett, and Reverend Albert Cleage, and records ongoing evaluations of past counterintelligence actions in the wake of COINTELPRO’s exposure. It also reveals internal discussions about the risks and ethical concerns of harassment, coordination with other FBI divisions, and attempts to sow distrust within targeted organizations. Documents are from November 1975 to September 1977, when the FBI began reviewing counterintelligence that took place between 1961 to 1969.
- Source
- 100-DE-43018-02, 18 November 1976 to 23 September 1977, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "COINTELPRO - New Left", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.
- Theme
- Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance
- Type
- Government Records, Media Reports
- Level 1 Tag
- Surveillance
- Detroit
- Government Correspondence
- Social Movements
- "Race
- Racism
- Racialization"
- Activism
- COINTELPRO
- Level 2 Tag
- COINTELPRO - Miscellaneous
- Communism
- Socialism
- Anti-War Movement
- Black Power
- Labor Movement
- Racial Unrest
- Profiling
- Informants
- Propaganda
- Infiltration
- Intimidation
- Abuse by Government
- Race & Ethnic Identity
- The New Left
- Level 3 Tag
- George Crockett
- Rev. Albert Cleage
- Carl Winter
- The Worker
- Detroit Free Press
- Detroit News
- Citywide Citizens Action Committee
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Date
- 1976-11-18 to 1977-09-23
- Location
- Detroit, MI & Washington, D.C.
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
