Preface
Acknowledgmetns
Abbreviations and codenames
Introduction: Contextualizing old patterns and new shifts in American surveillance.
Part I. The long view : historical persepctives of American surveillance: 1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's institutionalization of surveillance
2. Memory's half-life : notes on a social history of wiretapping in America
3. The new surveillance normal : government and corporate surveillance in the age of global capitalism.
Part II. Lanting those with a communist taint: 4. The dangers of promoting peace during times of [Cold] War : Gene Weltfish, the FBI, and the 1949 Waldorf Astoria's Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace
5. Tribal communism under fire : Archie Phinney and the FBI
6. The FBI's history of undermining legal defences : from jury panel investigations to defense lawyer surveillance programs
7. Agents of apartheid : Ruth First and the FBI's historical role of enforcing inequality.
Part III. Monitoring pioneers and public intellectuals: 8. How the FBI spied on Edward Said
9. Seymour Melman and the FBI's persecution of the demilitarization movement
10. Traces of FBI efforts to deport a radical voice : on Alexander Cockburn's FBI file
11. Medium cool : decades of the FBI's surveillance of Haskell Wexler
12. Blind whistling phreaks and the FBI's historical reliance on phone company criminality
13. The FBI and Candy Man : monitoring Fred Haley, a voice of reason during times of madness
14. David W. Conde, lost CIA critic and Cold War seer.
Part IV. Policing global inequality: 15. E.A. Hooton and the biosocial facts of American capitalism
16. Walt Whitman Rostow and FBI attacks on liberal anti-communism
17. André Gunder Frank, the FBI, and the bureaucratic exile of a critical mind
18. Angel Palerm and the FBI : monitoring a voice of independence at the organization of American states
19. The FBI's pursuit of Saul Landau : portrait of the radical as a young man.
Conclusion: Unbroken chain : connecting seven decades of American surveillance and harassment of progressives, activists, visionaries, and intellectuals - Notes
Bibliography
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