{"product_id":"the-fbis-secret-counterintelligence-program-against-the-new-left-antiwar-movement-von-bettina-nolde","title":"The FBI's secret counterintelligence program against the New Left Antiwar Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5 (A), University of Potsdam (Anglistics\/ American Studies), course: PS  The 1960s: An Age Of Turmoil, language: English, abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s one of the most controversial policies of the American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egovernment was its intervention in the Vietnam War. A whole nation was divided into so\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecalled doves and hawks, the former were fighting and demonstrating for peace whereas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe latter supported the government¿s policies concerning Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very influential and large group of the Antiwar Movement was the New Left, the main\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eplatform of the white students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the following, the author will give some information about this group and examine the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eactions of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) taken to harm or even destroy that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epart of the Antiwar Movement. These actions were manifested in the so called\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounterintelligence Program, which was shortened to the abbreviation Cointelpro.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs there is just one source on which all the literature concerning this topic is based its not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat easy to evaluate in how far all the published material is really true or just serves some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econspiracy theories, which were very common in that time. Especially in the Sixties, when\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Cold War reached its climax in the Cuban Missiles Crises in 1963 and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassassination of famous people like John F. Kennedy in the same year and Martin Luther\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing five years later supported the offspring of many conspiracy theories. So in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaftermath of that turbulent decade these theories continued to spread and were seen as true\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby the majority of the American people because of the Watergate Affaire in 1972 and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother revelations of scandals by the press. Even today after September, 11th 2001 a lot of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econspiracy theories arose. [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656095217\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656095217","offer_id":39432321106013,"sku":"9783656095217","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/a5464c4d-af86-497b-9aa6-06abdc757438.jpg?v=1777871956","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-fbis-secret-counterintelligence-program-against-the-new-left-antiwar-movement-von-bettina-nolde","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}