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CRIMES COMMITTED BY FBI AGENTS

by Elbows Wychulis (hindemith7 [at] yahoo.com)
Crimes committed by taxpayer funded FBI agents Book of the Month Club selections
SUGGESTED READING LIST



Bari, Judi. TIMBER WARS. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.
The F.B.I. attempted to stop the political activity of enviornmentalists Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney by exploding a bomb under their car.Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney recently won a $4. million lawsuit against the FBI. This book is the reason the F.B.I.
attempted to assassinate both of them.

Bowen Roger. INNOCENCE IS NOT ENOUGH: The Life and Death of Herbert Norman New York USA M.E. Sharpe Inc 1988
Looks at FBI murder of Herbert Norman,Canadian Ambassador to Egypt.

Buitrago, Ann Mari. F.B.I. FILES. Grove Press, 1981.
Covers the procedures for obtaining and interpreting your F.B.I. file.

Burnham, David. ABOVE THE LAW. Scribner, 1996.
Looks at secret deals and fixing of cases by the Justice Department and FBI.

Buttino, Frank. A SPECIAL AGENT. William Morrow,1993.
Investigates F.B.I. attacks on gay agentsduring the 1980’s.Written by a gay FBI agent.

Carson, Clayborne. MALCOLM X: THE F.B.I. FILE. Carroll & Graf, 1991.
Looks at the role of the F.B.I. in the assassination of Malcolm X.

Charns, Alexander. CLOAK AND GAVEL. University of Illinois Press. 1992.
After reviewing thousands of pages of FBI documents the attorney author
exposes the FBI illegal phone tapping of the Supreme Court and how the FBI fixes court
cases and manipulate Congress and State legislatures.

Churchill, Ward. AGENTS OF REPRESSION. South End Press, 1988.
Professor Churchill gives first hand accounts of F.B.I. death squad activities against the Black Panthers.

Churchill, Ward. THE COINTELPRO PAPERS. South End Press, 1990.
Explores how the F.B.I. disrupts legitimate political activities and engage in Death Squad activities.

Criley, Richard. THE F.B.I. VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT. First Amendment Foundation, 1990.
Looks at the destruction of the First Amendment by the F.B.I.

Davis, John. MAFIA KINGFISH: CARLOS MARCELLO AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY. McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Pivotal book in understanding how the FBI has used the Mafia to carry out political assassinations
of our political and civil rights leaders.

De Camp, John. THE FRANKLIN COVERUP. AWT Publishers, 1992.
A former Republican state senator from Nebraska looks at a pedophile ring involved in the
kidnapping, sexual torture and murder of children that went all the way to the Bush White House.
Attorney DeCamp discusses the FBI role in the coverup of this case including their murder of a special
prosecutor appointed to investigate the pedophile ring.

Dempsey, James X. and David Cole. TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION: SACRIFICING CIVIL
LIBERTIES IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Los Angeles, CA: First Amendment Foundation, 1999. Examines FBI campaign of terror to undermine
civil liberties.

Diamond, Sigmund. COMPROMISED CAMPUS. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Professor Diamond attempts to get F.B.I.files showing collaboration between the F.B.I. and colleges and universities from 1945-1955.

Donner, Frank. PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE. University of California Press, 1990.
Looks at collaboration between local police and the F.B.I. to stifle first amendment rights.

Dwyer, James. TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD. Diane publishers 1997.
One of he most important books you will read trying to understanding FBI involvement in 9-11
terrorist act at the World Trade Center. This book lays out in detail how the FBI engineered
the first World Trade Center explosion.

Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy. THE FALL OF PAN AM 103. G.B. Putnam's
Sons, 1990.
Oliver Revell was the number 2 man at the F.B.I. until he was demoted by F.B.I. Director
William Sessions to the Dallas Field Office. His son ChrisRevell had tickets for
Pan Am 103, but he changed his flight two days before the plane exploded over Lockerbie,Scotland. See Ross Gelbspan's book, BREAK-INS, DEATH THREATS
AND THE FBI to get a fuller picture of Oliver Revell.

Foerstel, Herbert. SURVEILLANCE IN THE STACKS. Greenwood Press, 1991.
Looks at attempts by the F.B.I. to get librarians to spy on the American public prior to 911.

Gallagher, Dorothy. ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES. Penguin Books, 1988.
The F.B.I. utilized the Mafia to carry out its executions against political activists from 1930 through 1970. Carlos Tresca was one of their victims.

Gelbspan, Ross. BREAK- INS, DEATH THREATS, AND THE F.B.I. South End Press, 1991.
This Pulitzer Prize winning reporter formerly with the Boston Globe, details F.B.I. collaboration with the death squads in El Salvador and their attacks upon American groups opposed to those death squads.

Glick, Brian. WAR AT HOME. South End Press, 1989.
Attorney Glick details the F.B.I.’s covert war against political activists.

Hoffman, David. THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR. Feral House, 1998. Contains detailed evidence about the FBI alliance with the terrorist underworld,
and how FBI agent provocateurs are behind the bombings.

Hougan, Jim. SPOOKS. William Morrow, 1978.
Important book detailing the life of former F.B.I. agent Robert Maheux and his relationship with the Mafia. Groundbreaking book in understanding FBI collaborationwith the Mafia, using it to carry out
assassinations on President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and countless others.

Keith, Jim. OK BOMB. Illuminate, 1996.
Explores FBI coverup of their involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.

Kelly, John F. TAINTING EVIDENCE. The Free Press 1998. The book is basedon testimony of FBI lab whistleblower Dr. Frederick Whitehurst , an employee of the FBI
for 19 years. Best book ever written showing how bad the FBI is run. Dr. Whitehurst was the
chemist who analyzed Timothy
McVeigh's clothes for traces of ammonium nitrate and was removed from the case when he did notfind any bomb residue.



Lehr, Dick & O'Neill, Gerard. BLACK MASS. Public Affairs, 2000.
Looks at the FBI's collaboration in Boston with the Mafia and Irish Mob between 1960 and 2001.
Important book showing how the FBI used the Mafia to commit political assassinations .There are currently $2 billion dollars in civil lawsuits filed against the Boston FBI office by the families of 21 women,children and men murdered by this FBI-Mafia collaboration.

Melanson, Phillip. THE MURKIN CONSPIRACY. Praeger, 1989.
Professor Melanson looks at the F.B.I.’s role in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Melanson, Phillip. THE ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. Shapolsky, 1991.
Professor Melanson is in charge of the Robert Kennedy archives at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
He details the F.B.I.’s role as one of the principal architects of the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Messerschmidt, Jim. THE TRIAL OF LEONARD PELTIER. South End Press, 1983.
Professor Messerschmidt looks at the miscarriage of justice in the F.B.I.’s handling of
the Leonard Peltier case.

Oklahoma City Bombing Investigative Committee. THE FINAL REPORT.2001.

The best book by far providing overwhelming evidence of FBI involvement in the Oklahoma City Bombing .Authored by the former republican state representative from Oklahoma City, Charles Key.

Navasky, Victor. INVESTIGATING THE F.B.I. Doubleday, 1973.

Contains material presented at a major conference at Princeton University in 1971 investigating crimes committed by the FBI.

Neff, James. MOBBED UP. Dell Publishers 1988.
Important book in understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia especially how the Bureau
uses the Mafia to carry out its political assassinations.

Nelson, Jack. THE F.B.I. AND THE BERRIGANS. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,
1972.
Looks at F.B.I. death squad directed against Nobel Peace Prize nominee Phil Berrigan and his
brother, Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan.

Olsen, Jack. LAST MAN STANDING: THE TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF GERONIMO PRATT.
Doubleday, 2000.
Provides supporting evidence for the idea of the F.B.I. as a death squad. Examines the F.B.I. acts of genocide against Afro-Americans and the real role they play in our society - the extermination of
leadership opposed to corporate control of America.
Geronimo Pratt was a former Black Panther who spent over 20 years in prison on perjured testimony of FBI agents. He recently settled a multi million dollar lawsuit with them after a judge released him from prison.
O’Reilly, Kenneth. RACIAL MATTERS. Free Press, 1989.
Professor O’Reilly looks at a file called Racial Matters that the F.B.I. is keeping on Black America.

Parenti, Michael. DIRTY TRUTHS. City Lights Books, 1996.
Dr. Parenti looks at F.B.I. involvement in the assassination of labor leader Walter Reuther while he
was organizing protests against the Vietnam War. It includes the essay “Why the Left is Afraid to look at the Assassination of JFK”.

Pepper, William. ORDERS TO KILL. Carroll and Graf, 1995.
Attorney Pepper represented James Earl Ray in his bid for a new trial and won a landmark case in
civil court in December 1999 for the Martin Luther King Jr. family. The jury in the case concluded
that the F.B.I. was involved in the assassination of King. His
book details our government’s involvement and provides photographic evidence of the F.B.I.’s
role in this assassination.

Pepper,William. ACT OF STATE , Verso February 2003

New book by attorney for King family laying out the 1999 trial evidence from Memphis where the King family sued one of the assasins of Dr. King in Civil Court. The jury returned a verdict in their favor and held a press conference saying FBI agents were principal architects in the assassination of Dr. King.

Powers, Richard Gid. SECRECY AND POWER. Free Press, 1987.
A biography of J. Edgar Hoover and his quest for power.

Powers, Tyrone. EYES TO MY SOUL. Majority Press, 1996.
Professor Powers an afro-american, talks about his 9 years working as an F.B.I. agent, and the
FBI FRUHMENSCHEN program.This program is set up tp target black politicians without cause in sting operations because FBI agents feel Afro-Americans are incapable of governing. White agents tried to kill him by blowing up his car with him in it while he was writing this book.

Ranalli, Ralph. DEADLY ALLIANCE. Harper Torch, 2001

Boston Globe reporter Ralph Rannali exposes FBI collaboration with the Boston Mafia from 1960-
2001 where they ran a Murderers R US. President Bush asserted Executive Privilege in 2002 preventing
Congress from seeing the Federal Prosecutor’s Investigative files on this case. 21 women,children and men were murdered by this collaboration.


Robbins, Natalie. ALIEN INK. William Morrow, 1992.
Ms. Robbins acquired the F.B.I. files on the major writers and artists of the 20th century, and examines F.B.I. attacks upon them and their freedom of
expression.

Schultz, Bud and Ruth. IT DID HAPPEN HERE. University of California Press, 1989.

Contains interviews with civil rights activists,union organizers and anti-war demonstrators who survived F.B.I. assassination attempts, and with families of those who did not.


Schultz, Bud and Ruth. THE PRICE OF DISSENT. University of California Press , 2001
The sequel to IT DID HAPPEN HERE with more interviews with Civil Rights activists and Union Organizers who survived FBI assassination attempts and with family members of people who were murdered.

Seymour, Sheri. COMMITTEE OF THE STATES. Self-published, 1989.
The F.B.I. infiltrated the California Militia 10 years before the Oklahoma City bombing. The book illustrates how easy it was for the F.B.I. to infiltrate the group and get it to make bombs.
Shows with child-like simplicity how easy it was for FBI agent provocteur to get Timothy McVeigh to make bomb and drive the truck.Please understand it was not the truck bomb that collapsed the building.

Sharkey, Joe. ABOVE SUSPICION. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Looks at the F.B.I. coverup involving one of its own agents Mark Putnam who
murdered an informant after he got her pregnant.

Suarez, Manuel. REQUIEM ON CERRO MARAVILLA. Waterfront Press, 1987.
Looks at F.B.I. collaboration with local police in the arrest,handcuffing, and death squad execution of two teenagers in Puerto Rico.

Summers, Anthony. OFFICIAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. G.B. Putnam and Sons,1993.
This is the book on which the PBS Frontline documentary on J.Edgar Hoover and his friendship with the Mafia is based. Theoharis, Athan. THE F.B.I. Garland Publishers,1994.
Professor Theoharis has compiled a comprehensive listing of books and articles about the F.B.I. up to 1994.

Thomas, Kenn. THE OCTOPUS. Feral House, 1996.
Investigates the F.B.I.’s role in the killing of investigative reporter Danny Casolero while he wasinvestigating the October Surprise.

Turner, William. THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY. Thunder Mouth Press, 1993.
Written by a former F.B.I. agent, it looks at the F.B.I.’s involvement in the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Turner, William. REARVIEW MIRROR foreword by Oliver Stone. Penmarin Books CA 2001 More updated information on FBI involvement in President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Assassination written by a former FBI agent.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. WHO IS GUARDING THE GUARDIANS? A Report
on Police
Death Squad activities. 1981.

Wiener, Jon. GIMME SOME TRUTH. University of California Press, 1999.
Professor Wiener looks at the 14 year battle with the F.B.I. toget them to release their files on
John Lennon.


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