A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the...

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Aaron J. Leonard Conor A. Gallagher

A Threat of the First Magnitude

FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union -...

Aaron J. Leonard, Conor A. Gallagher

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Repeater Books
01 November 2018

History of the Americas; Military intelligence

The follow up to the authors' groundbreaking 2015 book, Heavy Radicals (978-1782795346).

The untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States.

Sometime in the late fall/early winter of 1962, a document began circulating among members of the Communist Party USA based in the Chicago area, titled ""Whither the Party of Lenin."" It was signed ""The Ad Hoc Committee for Scientific Socialist Line."" This was not the work of factionally inclined CP comrades, but rather something springing from the counter-intelligence imagination of the FBI.

A Threat of the First Magnitudetells the story of the FBI's fake Maoist organization and the informants they used to penetrate the highest levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labelled threats to the internal security of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

As once again the FBI is thrust into the spotlight of US politics,A Threat of a First Magnitudeoffers a view of the historic inner-workings of the Bureau's counterintelligence operations - from generating ""fake news"" and the utilization of ""sensitive intelligence methods"" to the handling of ""reliable sources"" - that matches or exceeds the sophistication of any contenders.

By: Aaron J. Leonard, Conor A. Gallagher
Imprint: Repeater Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm,
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781910924709
ISBN 10: 1910924709
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aaron J Leonardis a writer and historian. He is a regular contributor toTruthout,Rabble.ca,The History News Network,PhysicsWorld, andCanadian Dimension. His research interests focus on twentieth-century US history, particularly Sixties history. Conor A Gallagheris a researcher and educator from Brooklyn, New York.He has a masters degree from the University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education.He currently lives with his wife Michelle in China where he teaches history. Their bookHeavy Radicals- The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoistswas published by Zero in 2015.