Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (cite: Churchill & Vander Wall, 1988) is a 1988 book by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (second edition 2002). It documents the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations against two of the most significant radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s, drawing on FOIA documents, court records, and interviews.
The book details specific operations: the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago (1969), the framing of Leonard Peltier following the Pine Ridge shootout (1975), the systematic targeting of AIM leadership through fabricated charges and snitch-jacketing, and the FBI’s role in fomenting violence on the Pine Ridge reservation. It documents how counterinsurgency tactics developed for foreign operations were deployed against domestic movements, particularly those organizing in Black and Indigenous communities.