Volume 21, Number 9 · May 30, 1974
See My Agent
By Andrew Kopkind
State Secrets: Police Surveillance in America
by Paul Cowan, by Nick Egleson, by Nat Hentoff, with Barbara Herbert, by Robert Wall
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 333 pp., $10.00
The Glass House Tapes
by Citizens Research and Investigation Committee, by Louis E. Tackwood
Avon, 284 pp., $1.75
The makers of the radical movements of the Sixties experienced political repression as heathens encountered religion: with awe, resignation, and dependence. In the beginning, the State revealed its terrible, almost magical power to harass, isolate, and ultimately destroy insurgent forces. That begat the outbreaks of 'paranoia' endemic to the movements in the latter years of the decade. At last, some radicals came to believe that the repression was itself a validation of their strategies and even a justification for their politics.
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