A review by jpowerj
Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement by Ross Gelbspan

4.25

Honestly like... REQUIRED reading for anyone who is scared about how political activities are monitored by the FBI. I like this one specifically, though, because I feel like it avoids the kinds of paranoid speculations/unjustified inferences that make most other books like this unreadable to me! For example, I was reading it at the same time as "The Iran-Contra Connection" by the same publisher, which imo is more just like a mishmash of "this person was in this group with this person", whereas the Gelbspan book he actually goes and interviews people to figure out (what annoying social science people like me) call the *mechanism* of how the linkages actually operated -- who had control over what decisions?