CLEAVER ELDRIDGE The FBI OPD and Eldridge Cleaver

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CLEAVER, ELDRIDGE. The FBI, OPD, and Eldridge Cleaver. Illustrated throughout. Two pages of frontispiece portraits, one of Martin Luther King Jr. with Malcolm X, the other of Cleaver when he was running for president. 24 pages, plus two additional full page portraits of Alprentice 'Bunchy' Carter and Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt at the end. Small 8vo, original pictorial red, white and blue wrappers; vertical crease where folded for mailing. San Francisco: Friends of Eldridge Cleaver, 1976

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a rare booklet gotten up to raise funds for the defense of eldridge cleaver, but more importantly presenting a short, but detailed history of the FBI's 'Cointelpro' activities within the Black Panther party. The killing of a number of Panthers by police and Federal agents is also recounted. This illustrations are striking, especially the one on the rear cover, showing Eldridge and Kathy Cleaver with their infant daughter. This booklet was gotten up after Cleaver returned from five years of self-exile in Cuba. This booklet, written by 'Friends of Eldridge Cleaver," outlines all of the arcane machinations of the FBI and Cointelpro. 'Many forces have conspired to cover up this era, to sweep it under the rug. . . Research into these dark pages of our history is vitally needed' (from the introduction).