cops, counterinsurgency, the cold war, & the color line | author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing, @ucpress
Dec 18, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
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