David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin's University's Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Codenames

Introduction

Part I: The Long View: Historical Perspectives of American Surveillance

1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's Institutionalization of Surveillance

2. Memory's Half-life: Notes on a Social History of Wiretapping in America.

3. The New Surveillance Normal: Government and Corporate Surveillance in the Age of Global Capitalism.

Part II: Lanting Those with a Communist Taint

4. The Dangers of Promoting Peace During Times of [Cold] War: Gene Weltfish, the FBI, & the 1949 Waldorf Astoria's Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace

5. Tribal Communism Under Fire: Archie Phinney and the FBI

6. The FBI's History of Undermining Legal Defenses: From Jury Panel Investigations to Defense Lawyer Surveillance Programs

7. Agents of Apartheid: Ruth First and the FBI's Historical Role of Enforcing Inequality

Part III: Monitoring Pioneers and Public Intellectuals

8. How the FBI Spied on Edward Said

9. Seymour Melman: the FBI's Persecution of the Demilitarization Movement

10. Traces of FBI Efforts to Deport a Radical Voice: On Alexander Cockburn's FBI File

11. Medium Cool: Decades of FBI Surveillance of Haskell Wexler

12. Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBI's Historical Reliance on Phone Company Criminality

13. The FBI and Candy Man: Monitoring Fred Haley, A Voice of Reason During Times of Madness

14. David W. Conde, Lost CIA Critic and Cold War Seer

Part IV: Policing Global Inequality

15. E. A. Hooton and the Biosocial Facts of American Capitalism

16. Walt Whitman Rostow and FBI Attacks on Liberal Anti-Communism

17. André Gunder Frank, the FBI, and the Bureaucratic Exile of a Critical Mind.

18. Angel Palerm and the FBI: Monitoring a Voice of Independence at the Organization of American States

19. The FBI's Pursuit of Saul Landau: Portrait of the Radical as a Young Man

Conclusion