[handwritten across top of page] The Cointel Papers by Ward Churchill


	[first paragraph ending with "...bombings at Camp McCoy." enclosed in handwritten bracket] [handwritten in left margin at the outside of handwritten bracket is, also handwritten, "#33" and "This writing is in His Own Book" with an arrow pointing to the last sentence]
	
	(181) [parenthesis handwritten] The card, which was a standard COINTELPRO item in such areas as downstate Illinois, was
	mailed on September 29, 1970 from the small town of Lacon(near Peoria). It thus followed hard on the
	heels of a September 9 letter from the SAC, Springfield (Illinois) to Hoover, captioned SM-ANA
	(WEATHERMAN), in which it is stated that Churchill [handwritten underline]-at the time affiliated [hamdwritten underline] with the Weatherman faction of SDS [handwritten underline]-"In addition to being investigated in connection with New Left activities in the Peoria area, has been the subject of inquiry in connection with the report of SA, [name deleted] Milwaukee 5/
	14/70 captioned UNSUB : Bombing of Telephone Exchange, Electric Substation and Water Resevoir,
	Camp McCoy, Wisconsin." The document concludes, after much further deletion, with the observation
	that "appropriate recommendations" will be "maintained for COINTELPRO action, which may neutralize
	the activities of this individual.." The person within the Peoria resident agency assigned "the Churchill
	case" from 1969-71-and who was thus in all probability responsible for the COINTELPRO actions
	aimed against him-was SA Bill Williams. Churchill, of course, had nothing whatsoever to do with the
	August 1970 bombings at Camp McCoy. [handwritten underline]
	182. The quote is taken from a documnet excerpted in Intellenge Activities and the Rights of 
Americans, Book II, op. cit., p. 127, n. 635.
	183. Sale, op. cit., pp. 532-3.
	184. Goldstein, Political Repression in Modern America, op. cit., p. 517. Also see Sale, op. cit., p. 348
	185. Glick, War at Home, op.cit., Also see Powers, Thomas, The War at Home:Vietnam and the American 
People, 1964-1968, Grossman Publishers, New York, 1973.
	186. The estimated number of bombings comes from Scanlon's Magazine, Janurary 1971
	187. An excellant study of the mainstream media handling of information on the new left may be
found in Gitlin, Todd, The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New
Left, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1980. Also see Porter, William E. Assault on the Media: The
Nixon Years, University of Michagen Press, Ann Arbor, 1976; and Murdock, Graham, "Political
Deviance: The Press Presentation of a Militant Mass Demonstration," in Cohen, Stanley, and Jock Young
(eds.), The Manufacture of the News, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills CA, 1973, pp 156-75. Of further
interest, see Winick, Charles (ed.), Deviance and the Mass Media, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, CA
1978
	188. On the thinking which went into Weatherman, see Jacobs, Weatherman, op. cit., and Sale, op. cit.,
Also see Powers, Thomas, Diane: The Making of a Terroist, Houghton-Mifflin Publishers, New York,
1971; and Daniels, Stuart, The Weatherman," Government and Opposition, No 9, Autumn 1974, pp. 430-
59. On an "unafilliated" group which followed more-or-less the same trajectory, see Melville, Samuel,


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