The row over the CCP’s new London base misses what MI5 already knows: concerns about spying go much further than tapped cables

Black resistance movements have always existed to push the envelope and fight to establish political agency and freedom against the state and surrounding institutions that work to dispose of and disenfranchise Black communities across the U.S. The contentious relationship between the U.S. government and leftist movements is a rich and developed ground of scholarship analyzing how repression emerges and evolves across time as a tool against social movements fighting for change. This scholarship however misses how state agencies work to undermine and racially flatten Black radical movements through crafting official, racialized narratives and images that reshape what these movements represent. In the context of the FBI’s counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) against Black Nationalists in the late 1960s, I analyze how the bureau discursively constructs Black activists as dangerous, immoral threats to society while activists themselves work to frame and establish themselves and what they stand for politically amid this period of repression. This project contributes to discussions of political repression on Black radical activism that has implications for scholars studying social movement repression by the state and for the wider public with the ongoing repression and counterinsurgency work enacted against Black movements today.

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This dissertation attempts to analyze the line between a government that can create security for its constituents, while also protecting their rights. It is an attempt to understand this schism by looking at the American Revolution and the role of spying in all of it. It aims to establish the role of spying in this narrative by first looking at the role of espionage in the ranks of the British government. The research attempts to look at how spying affected the American Revolution, how colonists lost their civil liberties because of spying, and the how spying played a future role in the United States. This was done by analyzing primary source documents such as public archives, diaries, and mostly letters. Secondary sources largely included online articles and academic books. The culmination in this research revealed that spying greatly influenced the decisions each military made, while also leading to a loss of rights for the colonists. Colonists largely lost their rights through the quartering of troops, the burning of private property, and established checkpoints. Finally, the research shows that espionage became interwoven into the fabric of the United States by the federal government neglecting civil liberties for the sake of maintaining safety. In conclusion, this dissertation looks to establish how certain levels of safety cannot be maintained without trampling civil rights through the monitoring and enforcement of a government’s citizens.

An analysis of how multipolarity, technology, and private-sector power are reshaping global intelligence practices and their implications for India’s national security.