The Campaign Against the Underground Press

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IWAMERICAN ACTIVITIES
ji Geoffrey Rips,, coordinator of PEN Amériçan périter Freedom to Write ¦'Cbm^iittee, has compiled a crucial report^ illegarsurveillMce and harassment of the potent independent press. moVerneut of the 1060s arid 1970s. Citing. goVemm^t records ao4 editors' files, h^ tells jbhe story oiÎ'BI, CIA, NiSAy mflifcary a^ police effoiis to silence dissidçntj voices o| antiwar, Ne\y ' Lfeft, youth, wcaiien's?and minority:rightp moymM^ The jFBI l^;Póint' Plan to Bisi-upt'th^New ljeft lauribhed a nationwide éampaign tó r^icule, discredit,-.andv"confuse by niisinforriiation." Government agents bláckmailed, ' tapped phon^, monitored bank arid tkx records, beat up and jailed people. Police seatched' wi^óiít ,warrants; destroyed presses and-eqyipriignt, cbun-tenancé<| terrorist thugs, bonibiriga and murder. Rips' investigation of government high crimes and misdemeanors puts questions bf censorship and Jfreetspeech in^arp focus for the 1980s. =
Civil libertáriari... Tovább

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ji Geoffrey Rips,, coordinator of PEN Amériçan périter Freedom to Write ¦'Cbm^iittee, has compiled a crucial report^ illegarsurveillMce and harassment of the potent independent press. moVerneut of the 1060s arid 1970s. Citing. goVemm^t records ao4 editors' files, h^ tells jbhe story oiÎ'BI, CIA, NiSAy mflifcary a^ police effoiis to silence dissidçntj voices o| antiwar, Ne\y ' Lfeft, youth, wcaiien's?and minority:rightp moymM^ The jFBI l^;Póint' Plan to Bisi-upt'th^New ljeft lauribhed a nationwide éampaign tó r^icule, discredit,-.andv"confuse by niisinforriiation." Government agents bláckmailed, ' tapped phon^, monitored bank arid tkx records, beat up and jailed people. Police seatched' wi^óiít ,warrants; destroyed presses and-eqyipriignt, cbun-tenancé<| terrorist thugs, bonibiriga and murder. Rips' investigation of government high crimes and misdemeanors puts questions bf censorship and Jfreetspeech in^arp focus for the 1980s. =
Civil libertáriari Aryeh Neier ;surveys poJiU^ from the early niriéteenth ceritury to thé "invisible" çerisaréhip of tôday's sophisticated poiiéé" networks. ! • ; ; , : ,
^ fodd Gitlin, authbtof The Whóle World is Watching. :reviews "The Uriiieiground-Press and Its Cave;vín"'in the context of thé New Left aS a whole. In addition|o Creating a lively ri,;gw political forum, alternative n^edia also fostéród nçw f^rri^istic styléá and experimental arts^But tiiesepresses, ; by virtue of thMr rio|ç-!éatablishmerit poUtics and fina^^^ weré párticölarly vulrierable .to disrupiiôft by big business ^nd govejfnrii^ .
Looking iritq .t|ie<!IA'^perâtiôri-GÎîAOj^,. Ai^^ focuses
. ön the stránge cáá;^ 0f agant í^d ínfornaef Sa! Ferrera? And hfe details goVern- V rrient pressure ori^recp^id;(^m|^anie&to^ advertising contjracts which
. the úri1iergi:oun4%p^ !
V Allen Ginsbe]^^, prophet and, sleuth instrumental in^e^ CIA
%er<:ȔiLtrafficking).|^^^ files he gathered between 1968 and
1972,concerning iljegal government sabotage of the written Word. In his * foreword-tdjRips'reporit, he^^^^^ Bill of Rights was adopted to limit
the püshiness-of-^oUce spips, government gossips, ageri'ts^provoeateursi drunken busy-bó%$, kinky bureaucrats, off-the-wall paper-piíishérs and ^ douais
agents lush, scream pig, start fights and ^
murders, ?and then try to*fraöié idealistic citizens for the same crini^ these idiot bureaucrats'are hired tö commit,"; Vissza