David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University’s Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages.

'Few writers have done more than David Price to drag the secret history of America out of the shadows and into the clarifying light of public scrutiny. In a nation obsessed with secrets, the biggest and darkest secret of all is the one Price exposes here: the deviously surreptitious - and often illegal - lengths our own government has gone to surveil and disrupt the daily lives of its own citizens'

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and CodenamesIntroductionPart I: The Long View: Historical Perspectives of American Surveillance1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI’s Institutionalization of Surveillance2. Memory's Half-life: Notes on a Social History of Wiretapping in America.3. The New Surveillance Normal: Government and Corporate Surveillance in the Age of Global Capitalism.Part II: Lanting Those with a Communist Taint4. The Dangers of Promoting Peace During Times of [Cold] War: Gene Weltfish, the FBI, & the 1949 Waldorf Astoria’s Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace5. Tribal Communism Under Fire: Archie Phinney and the FBI6. The FBI’s History of Undermining Legal Defenses: From Jury Panel Investigations to Defense Lawyer Surveillance Programs7. Agents of Apartheid: Ruth First and the FBI’s Historical Role of Enforcing InequalityPart III: Monitoring Pioneers and Public Intellectuals8. How the FBI Spied on Edward Said9. Seymour Melman: the FBI’s Persecution of the Demilitarization Movement10. Traces of FBI Efforts to Deport a Radical Voice: On Alexander Cockburn’s FBI File11. Medium Cool: Decades of FBI Surveillance of Haskell Wexler12. Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBI’s Historical Reliance on Phone Company Criminality13. The FBI and Candy Man: Monitoring Fred Haley, A Voice of Reason During Times of Madness14. David W. Conde, Lost CIA Critic and Cold War SeerPart IV: Policing Global Inequality15. E. A. Hooton and the Biosocial Facts of American Capitalism16. Walt Whitman Rostow and FBI Attacks on Liberal Anti-Communism17. André Gunder Frank, the FBI, and the Bureaucratic Exile of a Critical Mind.18. Angel Palerm and the FBI: Monitoring a Voice of Independence at the Organization of American States19. The FBI’s Pursuit of Saul Landau: Portrait of the Radical as a Young ManConclusion

David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University’s Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages.

'Few writers have done more than David Price to drag the secret history of America out of the shadows and into the clarifying light of public scrutiny. In a nation obsessed with secrets, the biggest and darkest secret of all is the one Price exposes here: the deviously surreptitious - and often illegal - lengths our own government has gone to surveil and disrupt the daily lives of its own citizens'

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and CodenamesIntroductionPart I: The Long View: Historical Perspectives of American Surveillance1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI’s Institutionalization of Surveillance2. Memory's Half-life: Notes on a Social History of Wiretapping in America.3. The New Surveillance Normal: Government and Corporate Surveillance in the Age of Global Capitalism.Part II: Lanting Those with a Communist Taint4. The Dangers of Promoting Peace During Times of [Cold] War: Gene Weltfish, the FBI, & the 1949 Waldorf Astoria’s Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace5. Tribal Communism Under Fire: Archie Phinney and the FBI6. The FBI’s History of Undermining Legal Defenses: From Jury Panel Investigations to Defense Lawyer Surveillance Programs7. Agents of Apartheid: Ruth First and the FBI’s Historical Role of Enforcing InequalityPart III: Monitoring Pioneers and Public Intellectuals8. How the FBI Spied on Edward Said9. Seymour Melman: the FBI’s Persecution of the Demilitarization Movement10. Traces of FBI Efforts to Deport a Radical Voice: On Alexander Cockburn’s FBI File11. Medium Cool: Decades of FBI Surveillance of Haskell Wexler12. Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBI’s Historical Reliance on Phone Company Criminality13. The FBI and Candy Man: Monitoring Fred Haley, A Voice of Reason During Times of Madness14. David W. Conde, Lost CIA Critic and Cold War SeerPart IV: Policing Global Inequality15. E. A. Hooton and the Biosocial Facts of American Capitalism16. Walt Whitman Rostow and FBI Attacks on Liberal Anti-Communism17. André Gunder Frank, the FBI, and the Bureaucratic Exile of a Critical Mind.18. Angel Palerm and the FBI: Monitoring a Voice of Independence at the Organization of American States19. The FBI’s Pursuit of Saul Landau: Portrait of the Radical as a Young ManConclusion