scholarly journals Documentos de inteligência como fonte: o caso do Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (30) ◽  
pp. 257-287
Author(s):  
João Paulo Martins Faria

A proposta deste artigo é explorar as potencialidades e os limites dos documentos de agências de inteligência como fonte para os historiadores. Para isso, será usado o caso dos documentos do Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), especialmente durante os anos 1950 e 1960, quando a instituição investigou e monitorou de forma intensa vários movimentos sociais nos Estados Unidos. Com um histórico bastante repressivo em relação a minorias, organizações de esquerda, e até movimentos supremacistas brancos, o FBI produziu documentação farta sobre seus investigados. Apesar disso, a discussão teórico-metodológica sobre as fontes dessa agência é insuficiente, dado o caráter recente da historiografia sobre a instituição e as limitações de acesso aos arquivos do Bureau. Utilizando como base teórica de análise estudos sobre a atividade de inteligência e considerações sobre arquivologia, pretende-se discutir o olhar do historiador sobre os documentos de agências de informação.

1951 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 672
Author(s):  
Jay Murphy ◽  
Max Lowenthal

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-325
Author(s):  
Khandis R. Blake ◽  
Siobhan M. O’Dean ◽  
James Lian ◽  
Thomas F. Denson

How online social behavior covaries with real-world outcomes remains poorly understood. We examined the relationship between the frequency of misogynistic attitudes expressed on Twitter and incidents of domestic and family violence that were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We tracked misogynistic tweets in more than 400 areas across 47 American states from 2013 to 2014. Correlation and regression analyses found that misogynistic tweets were related to domestic- and family-violence incidents in those areas. A cross-lagged model showed that misogynistic tweets positively predicted domestic and family violence 1 year later; however, this effect was small. Results were robust to several known predictors of domestic violence. Our findings identify geolocated online misogyny as co-occurring with domestic and family violence. Because the longitudinal relationship between misogynistic tweets and domestic and family violence was small and conducted at the societal level, more research with multilevel data might be useful in the prediction of future violence.


2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN SBARDELLATI ◽  
TONY SHAW

This article examines the battle over popular culture in the age of McCarthyism. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under J. Edgar Hoover, targeted Charlie Chaplin because of his status as a cultural icon and as part of its broader investigation of Hollywood. Some of Chaplin's films were considered ““communist propaganda,”” but because Chaplin was not a member of the Communist Party, he was not among those investigated by HUAC in 1947. Nevertheless, he was vulnerable to protests by the American Legion and other patriotic groups because of both his sexual and political unorthodoxy. Yet, although countersubversives succeeded in driving Chaplin out of the country, they failed to build a consensus that Chaplin was a threat to the nation. Chaplin's story testifies to both the awesome power of the countersubversive campaign at mid-century and to some of its limitations as well.


Author(s):  
Kathryn Gin Lum ◽  
Lerone A. Martin

In this chapter, Kathryn Gin Lum and Lerone Martin sketch the decades leading up to the formation of the Bureau of Investigation in 1908—later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This chapter offers readers a summary of the cultural and institutional context that led to the Bureau’s creation and the nature of American religion during that period. The chapter sets the stage for readers to understand the initial historical and cultural milieu in which the long history of the FBI’s relationship with religion took root.


Author(s):  
Alan McPherson

This chapter begins Part Two of the book, “Investigation.” “CHILBOM” is the code-name that the Federal Bureau of Investigation gives to the Letelier case, suspecting early that the Chilean government is involved but confirming only after a year and a half of investigation. Eugene Propper is the Assistant US Attorney in charge of the investigation at the Department of Justice, with the FBI assisting.


MOVE ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 123-152
Author(s):  
Richard Kent Evans

This chapter focuses on the role that policing plays in classifying groups, beliefs, and practices as either religious or secular. Almost from the very beginning of the group, MOVE was under surveillance from the city police’s extensive surveillance apparatus. By the early 1980s, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Secret Service had all targeted MOVE for surveillance, infiltration, or prosecution. To be sure, MOVE brought much of this attention on themselves. But their claims to religious legitimacy were met, early on, with the presumption of criminality. One reason MOVE was not allowed to be a religion was because MOVE never existed apart from government policing and surveillance.


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