[0027-2222] THE SECRET WAR ON DISSENT – Companion Dossier (PDF)

Description

In the early morning hours of March 8, 1971, a clandestine team of anti-war activists slipped past the locks of the FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania. They vanished into the fog with duffel bags loaded with classified files, uncovering a single word previously hidden from congressional oversight: COINTELPRO. This definitive Companion Dossier reconstructs the paper trail of J. Edgar Hoover’s unauthorized counterintelligence campaign from its 1956 inception through its public unraveling. Featuring chronologically organized operational directives, declassified teletype communications, and target dossiers, this document charts the Bureau’s systematic infiltration of domestic dissident networks, civil rights leaders, and anti-war organizations. Examine authentic reproductions of the forged correspondence, unauthorized wiretap authorizations, and internal memoranda explicitly ordering field agents to neutralize citizen dissent and provoke inter-organizational conflict. Structured like an intelligence case file, this dossier provides researchers and history enthusiasts with forensic visual evidence of state-sponsored surveillance, detailing the high-stakes burglary that forced the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s deepest secrets into the glare of national scrutiny.