Identifier

FBI_00019

Title

Fleming Assails FBI 'Dirty Tricks' Article & Missing Files and Serials Detroit Division

Creator

Article: O'Conner, John and Cummins, Robert Files: Schweder, Bernard (FBI)

Description

Several pages listing COINTELPRO files reported "missing" to the Bureau and communications between FBI officials attempting to find them. This set of documents also contains an article highlighting the blowback of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, after declassified records revealed the FBI sent anonymous letters to State Legislators and U of M Regents to disrupt the “New Left”, resulting in 3 U of M teachers/faculty members being released.

Source

100-DE-35108, 1 December 1968 to 25 July 1980, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Missing Files and Serials Detroit Division", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.

Theme

Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance

Type

Publications, Government Records

Level 1 Tag

FOIA (FOIPA) Requests

Government Correspondence

Misconduct

Surveillance

COINTELPRO

Level 2 Tag

Privacy

Infiltration

Government Misconduct

COINTELPRO - Miscellaneous

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Department of Justice

Date

1968-12-01 to 1980-07-25

Location

Ann Arbor, MI & Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act