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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyd, Herb, 1938- author.

Rojas, Don, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.

X, Malcolm.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Corrupt practices.

United States.

African Americans--Government relations.

African Americans.

African American radicals.

Physical Description:

xvii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Third World Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780883784327

0883784327

OCLC:

1482813130