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245 10 a| Malcolm X, the CIA, and other Blacks /c| by Herb Boyd and Don Rojas.;

250 a| First edition.;

264 1 a| Chicago, IL :b| Third World Press,c| [2024];

300 a| xvii, 170 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

505 0 a| Foreword / Hisham Aidi -- Preface -- Under surveillance -- The Milas touch -- COINTELPRO and the Malcolmites -- Comrades in Africa (CIA) -- The CP and fellow travelers -- Dr. King's inner circle -- RAM/CIA -- Dr. King's outer circle -- Friends and enemies of Freedomways -- FBI/CIA -- "Sheep-dipping" -- BLA and Panthers in Algiers -- Rastas, Rodney, and C.L.R. James -- Past as prologue -- Brother Rob, the RNA and the CCF -- The Robesons and the Robinsons -- ALSC -- The invasion of Grenada -- The assassination of Walter Rodney.;

520 a| "An aggregate of assumptions, false leads, wrong conclusions, and deceptive intrigue abounds when you undertake a study of the CIA and its devious missions. ... This project began with a deep dive into the extent to which Malcolm X was under CIA surveillance. That information was scant and through the FOIA we received about twenty pages, most of it redundant or heavily redacted. Access to the CIA reading room presented little improvement on the available documents. It was at this point that we began to enlarge our focus and include a host of African American radicals who were spied on by government agents and who some of those spooks might have been. What began as a speculation that Malcolm was being shadowed by Leo Milas--and that remains an unresolved issue--grew into researching a list of activists, most of them affiliated with the Communist Party or 'fellow travelers' who drew the attention and/or harassment of the CIA and other government agencies. For the most part we sought to tie these militants and their organizations into a continuous thread with only a few chapter breaks or interruptions. That continuity, we believe, shows the linkage and interconnection of personalities and formations both in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa. The pursuit here is not only across borders but across time from one generation of activists/radicals to another. ... In the following pages we will disclose how the CIA infiltrated, shadowed, tricked, coerced, and generally undermined organizations and individuals, and often the end result of these intrigues was the death of the target. Malcolm X and his cohort were clearly among those in the crosshairs of the agency."--Preface, pages xvi-xvii.;

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Malcolm X, the CIA, and other Blacks / by Herb Boyd and Don Rojas.

Author/creator	Boyd, Herb, 1938- author.
Other author	Rojas, Don, author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	Chicago, IL : Third World Press, [2024]
Copyright Date	©2024
Description	xvii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Corrupt practices. African Americans--Government relations. African American radicals.

Contents	Foreword / Hisham Aidi -- Preface -- Under surveillance -- The Milas touch -- COINTELPRO and the Malcolmites -- Comrades in Africa (CIA) -- The CP and fellow travelers -- Dr. King's inner circle -- RAM/CIA -- Dr. King's outer circle -- Friends and enemies of Freedomways -- FBI/CIA -- "Sheep-dipping" -- BLA and Panthers in Algiers -- Rastas, Rodney, and C.L.R. James -- Past as prologue -- Brother Rob, the RNA and the CCF -- The Robesons and the Robinsons -- ALSC -- The invasion of Grenada -- The assassination of Walter Rodney.
Abstract	"An aggregate of assumptions, false leads, wrong conclusions, and deceptive intrigue abounds when you undertake a study of the CIA and its devious missions. ... This project began with a deep dive into the extent to which Malcolm X was under CIA surveillance. That information was scant and through the FOIA we received about twenty pages, most of it redundant or heavily redacted. Access to the CIA reading room presented little improvement on the available documents. It was at this point that we began to enlarge our focus and include a host of African American radicals who were spied on by government agents and who some of those spooks might have been. What began as a speculation that Malcolm was being shadowed by Leo Milas--and that remains an unresolved issue--grew into researching a list of activists, most of them affiliated with the Communist Party or 'fellow travelers' who drew the attention and/or harassment of the CIA and other government agencies. For the most part we sought to tie these militants and their organizations into a continuous thread with only a few chapter breaks or interruptions. That continuity, we believe, shows the linkage and interconnection of personalities and formations both in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa. The pursuit here is not only across borders but across time from one generation of activists/radicals to another. ... In the following pages we will disclose how the CIA infiltrated, shadowed, tricked, coerced, and generally undermined organizations and individuals, and often the end result of these intrigues was the death of the target. Malcolm X and his cohort were clearly among those in the crosshairs of the agency."--Preface, pages xvi-xvii.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN	9780883784327
ISBN	0883784327

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