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Books About Espionage & Counter Insurgency

 

This is a sort of catch-all section for books about the dirty deeds performed by western intelligence agencies and federal police departments on behalf of rich people, corporations and the Pig Empire establishment – including, but not limited to: espionage, mass surveillance, assassinations, counter-insurgency operations, the disruption of domestic dissident movements, drug smuggling, as well as covert (and not so covert) attempts to overthrow left wing governments that oppose American imperialism, the US petrodollar and/or the western neoliberal economic consensus.

Please note that for reasons of physical shelving space in my house, this page now includes both books about domestic surveillance as part of the Cold War or the War on Terror, and police actions to suppress left wing and equality movements in the United States or larger Pig Empire. My focus here will however remain the repressive, covert, and often violent sort of deeds the state undertakes against activists and dissidents; whether they be domestic or foreign.

Readers who’d like to explore the politics and activities of those movements (such as the Black Panther Party, AIM, labor unions, Civil Rights leaders and the anti-war movement) are still encouraged to check out our Books About Injustice & Anti-colonialism or Marxism, Anarchism & Liberation Ideology Books, as appropriate.

 

 

The Haymarket Tragedy

Paul AvrichReviewBonus

 

The Jakarta Method

Vincent BevinsReviewReviewBonus

 

COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom

Nelson BlackstockCOINTELPRO WikiBlurb

 

Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars against the BPP & the AIM

Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall – WikiBonus

 

The COINTEPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent

Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall – ReviewBonus

 

Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press

Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. ClairReviewBlurb

 

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden

Steve CollReviewBonus

 

There’s Something Happening Here

David CunninghamReviewBonus

 

The History of the Haymarket Affair

Henry David – Review (Sorta)Haymarket WikiBonusBonus

 

The Plots Against the President

Sally DentonReviewBonusBonus

 

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

James W. DouglasReview

 

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel EllsbergReviewBlurbBonusBonus

 

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State

Barton GellmanReviewReviewBlurbBonusBonus

 

Death in the Haymarket

James GreenReviewReviewReviewBonusBonus

 

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Glenn GreenwaldReview – Caveat Emptor (PoS Author)

 

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Jeffrey HaasReviewReviewBonusBonusPDF

 

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

Stephen KinzerReviewReviewBonusBonus

 

Heavy Radicals – The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists

Aaron Leonard, Conor GallagherReviewReviewBonus

 

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

Yasha LevineReviewCYR BlogBonusBonus

 

Secrets: the CIA’s War at Home

Angus MackenzieReviewBlurbBonus

 

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence

V Marchetti, J.D. MarksReview – Caveat Emptor (PoS Author)

 

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

Peter MatthiessenReviewBlurbPDF

 

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

Alfred W. McCoyReviewReviewBlurbBonus

 

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI

Betty MedsgerReviewReviewBonusBonus

 

Naming Names

Victor NavaskyReviewReviewBlurbBonus

 

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

William F. PepperReviewBlurbBlurbBonus

 

Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

Will PotterReviewBlurbBlurbBonusBonus

 

Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals 1903-1933

William Preston Jr.Review

 

State of War: The Secret History Of The CIA And The Bush Administration

James RisenReviewBlurbBonusBonus

 

Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power

Seth RosenfeldReviewReviewBlurbBonusBonus

 

Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

Charlie SavageReviewReviewBlurb – BonusBonus

 

It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America

Bud Schultz, Ruth Schultz – Blurb

 

Dallas ’63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House

Peter Dale ScottBlurbBonusPDF

 

Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing

Tim ShorrockReviewBlurbBonusBonusBonusBonus

 

Permanent Record

Edward SnowdenReviewReviewCYR EssayBonusBonus

 

The Devil’s Chessboard

David TalbotReviewReviewReviewBonusBonus

 

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

Fred TurnerReviewBlurbBonusBonus

 

The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI

Stephen M. UnderhillReviewBonusBonus

 

Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion

Gary WebbReviewBackgroundBonusBonusBonus

 

Enemies: A History of the FBI

Tim WeinerReviewReviewReviewBonusBonus

 

Legacy of Ashes: the History of the CIA

Tim WeinerReviewReviewCYR EssayBlurbBonus

 

Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency

Kristian Williams, Will Munger, Lara Messersmith-GlavinReviewBonus

 

Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-87

Bob WoodwardReviewReview

 

 

 

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