Author-Meets-Readers Roundtable: THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE by David Cunningham (University of California Press, 2004).

A roundtable on the book There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI counterintelligence, by David Cunningham (University of California Press, 2004). This book looks inside the FBI's COINTELPRO against white hate groups and the New Left. In a painstaking analysis, Cunningham focuses on the complex organizational dynamics that generated thousands of COINTELPRO actions. His account shows how the workings of the programs led to outcomes that often seemed to lack any overriding logic. Cunningham extends his analysis to the FBI's often controversial recent actions to show the influence of the COINTELPRO legacy on contemporary debates over national security and civil liberties. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]