The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Polical Intelligence System

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From the Red Scare of World War I to the Watergate scandals of the 1970s, an intense, clandestine (and often illegal) campaign was mounted against American citizens by key elements of their own government. The official name for this was "political intelligence" or "surveillance," but its real purpose was the restriction and suppression of all forms of political dissent and of movements for social change. The result, as noted civil liberties attorney Frank J. Donner conclusively proves in this exhaustively researched book, was the institutionalization of surveillance as " a mode of governance," a self-perpetuating system of political control. Acknowledgments...vii Introduction to the Vintage Edition...ix Introduction...xvii 1 The Theory and Practice of Domestic Political Intelligence...3 2 The Emergence of the American Political Intelligence System...30 3 The Bureau's Spurious Intelligence Authority...52 4 The Lengthened Shadow of a Man...79 5 The Bureau in Action--Target Selection, Operation, Files...126 6 Aggressive Intelligence...177 7 Intelligence as a Mode of Governance--The White House...241 8 Military Surveillance of Civilian Politics...287 9 Internal Revenue Service--Tax Collector as Nation Savior...321 10 Kangaroo Grand Juries...353 11 Intelligence as a Mode of Governance--The Role in Congress...386 12 Countersubversive Intelligence in the Private Sector...414 Epilogue...452 Appendixes...464 Notes...484 Selected Bibliography...523 Index...533