Nixon’s Fixers and the Systematic Sabotage of Federal Agencies
Nixon’s covert "fixers" turned the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Justice into weapons against political enemies and corporate rivals.
By Marcus Boone ·
Domestic Surveillance
Unofficial Files and the War Plans Division's Map of Domestic Dissent
Suffragists, Black soldiers, and peace activists were photographed by a propaganda agency and handed to military planners in a cache kept secret from official records.
By Marcus Boone ·
Nixon's Fixers and the May 3 Assault on Anti-War Protesters
Anti-war activists were beaten at the seat of government in 1972, and the investigation into the violence was handed to a covert unit of White House fixers.
By Harlan Pryce ·
112th CIC Group and the Fourth Army’s Mapping of American Targets
Nisei linguists monitored "foreign nationals" within the United States, a domestic surveillance operation now buried under a bland archival label for administrative correspondence.
By Miriam Adler ·
Japanese-American Assets and the Shadow of Sabotage
While the Army Language School relied on Japanese-American linguists, the War Department was simultaneously tracking their communities for suspicious activity across the country.
By Marcus Boone ·
Army Intelligence Drafted 1943 Plan to Watch Axis Suspects and American Firms
Domestic surveillance of "subversive" citizens and corporate entities was mapped out in a working model created during the height of World War II.
By Constance Bell ·
Army CIC records track informants and targets across five nations
The US Army's domestic and foreign surveillance web remained hidden in personnel rosters and station lists, tracking targets from Panama to the Korean DMZ.
By Marcus Boone ·
Air Force scripts domestic drone surveillance through 2047
US citizens are treated as logistical problems to be solved in a decades-long effort to bypass Fourth Amendment protections and integrate military drones into the domestic sky.
By Miriam Adler ·