Abstract
This chapter traces how the FBI and New Left influenced one another from June 1969 to February 1970, after the militant Weatherman faction split from Students for a Democratic Society and announced plans to form a revolutionary urban guerrilla organization aimed at overthrowing US imperialism. The FBI targeted Weatherman with COINTELPRO-New Left, and FBI assistant director William Sullivan and Nixon aide Tom Huston began meeting behind Director J. Edgar Hoover’s back to concoct plans for confronting leftist violence and expanding federal domestic surveillance powers. Meanwhile, the US war in Vietnam and police violence at home, including the police murder of Chicago Black Panther Fred Hampton in December 1969, helped strengthen Weatherman’s determination to build a clandestine urban guerrilla underground.
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