In 1970, the NY Times published a piece purporting to expose Jewish fears that anti-zionism was the new antisemitism within Black Power and New Left groups. The FBI took notice and turned the article into a pamphlet as part of its Counterintelligence Program or COINTELPRO. 1/13 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had 25 copies of this pamphlet sent to each of 20 of its field offices. He then instructed the field offices to begin "anonymous mailing to selected individuals or organizations" to "capitalize" on the "embarrassing anti-Semitic stigma." 2/13

Today, on WEB Du Bois's birthday, I stumbled across this fascinating passage from Herbert Aptheker: "It is worth noting . . . there is good evidence that Lenin's studies of the U.S. made him the debtor of the labors of WEB Du Bois, though neither man knew this at the time... 1/8 "Thus, Lenin stated . . . that in preparing his work on U.S. agriculture he had 'found a great deal of interesting matter' in the fifth volume, on agriculture, in the 1900 Census. The fact is that Dr. Du Bois was then employed by the Census Bureau and did much of the work... 2/8