New Left organization
also: NewLeft, New Left adherents, New Left COINTELPRO, New Left extremists, New Left groups, New Left movement, New Left organizations, so-called New Left, the New Left
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Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack
New Left documented
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“Soliciting information from Field Offices "on a continuing basis for "prompt dissemination to the news media to discredit the New Left movement and its adherents.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.32
FBI spied_on
New Left documented
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“the New Left has on many occasions viciously and scurrilously attacked the Director and the Bureau in an attempt to hamper our investigations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.89
FBI carried_out_attack
New Left documented
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“The most vaguely defined and haphazard of the COINT'ELPRO operations was that initiated against the 'New Left in May 1968…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.104
Tom Charles Huston targeted_for_regime_change
New Left reported
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“Huston believed that the intelligence professionals if given the chance could protect the people from the latent forces of repression by monitoring the New Left including by illegal means.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.162
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
New Left documented
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“The FBI's intelligence investigation of the 'New Left,' for example, was directed towards a 'comprehensive study of the whole movement' and produced intensive monitoring of such subjects as 'support of movement by religious groups or indivi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.194
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
New Left documented
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“FBI headquarters solicited information from field offices 'on a continuing basis for 'prompt .. dissemination to the news media . to discredit the New Left movement and its adherents.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.259
Students for a Democratic Society member_of
New Left documented
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“The New Left movement is a loosely-bound free-wheeling college-oriented movement spearheaded by the Students for a Democratic Society…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.10
FBI spied_on
New Left documented
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“the New Left was gradually added to the work of the Division's Internal Security Section in the late 1960s…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.21
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
New Left documented
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“On October 28 1968 the fifth and final COINTELPRO was started against this undefined group…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.29
FBI spied_on
New Left documented
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“Consequently the Intelligence Division instructed field offices 'to develop information indicative of support of the New Left Movement by tax-exempt charitable foundations...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.529
New Left operated_in
United States documented
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“I believe[d] that the leaders of the New Left movement had publicly professed their determination to act to overthrow the government of the United States…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.530
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
New Left documented
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“Through the Key Activist Program we have focused investigative attention on the leaders of the New Left Movement with the aim of prosecuting these leaders under appropriate statutes federal or local wherever possible…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.539
New Left targeted_for_regime_change
United States documented
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“the leaders of the New Left movement had publicly professed their determination to act to overthrow the Government of the United States…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.123
FBI spied_on
New Left documented
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“June 18 1968 letter from FBI headquarters to special agent in charge Cincinnati re Disruption of the New Left…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.5
Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack
New Left documented
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“In 1968 we see the initiating document and it is interesting to note some of the reasons why the New Left is identified as a problem…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.35
FBI carried_out_attack
New Left documented
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“Another technique adopted was to try to create the impression that any of the New Left leaders were in fact informants and wherever one could the field was directed to implant that impression…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.36
Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change
New Left documented
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“They are immediately followed by a literal preoccupation with the activities of the New Left and blacks…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.39
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
New Left documented
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“We have talked some this morning when you gave the presentation of the various targets that had been selected and one relating to the New Left seems to be a particularly nebulous type target…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.55
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
New Left documented
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“Indeed after I left the Department Mr Hoover went even further again with full public knowledge and related the activities of the CommunistParty with those of many other organizations includingthe following the Students for a Democratic Soc…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.217