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Abstract: The Federal Bureau of Investigation employed numerous strategies to discredit the Ku Klux Klan as part of ts COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE program. Portraying KKK leaders as corrupt, prurient, foolish, and dangerous, the FBI succeeded in undermining support for the clandestine organization among those within and outside its ranks. Its use of cartoons ridiculing Klavern leaders, Wizards, and other exoticized figures contributed to public attitudes of derision for the culturally marginal practices of the Klan. Managing press coverage of the Klan also contributed to the public communication campaign that helped defeat in the public sphere a foe drawing upon considerable cultural capital in its fields of operations.

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Abstract: This paper examines federal terrorism prosecutions from the inception of the William French Smith AG Guidelines in 1983 through August 31, 2004. The data suggest that changes in both governmental behavior and terrorist group behavior affected the numbers and types of federal terrorism cases in the United States during this period. The analysis also includes findings and discussion regarding how cases since the 9/11 attack differ from those prior to this event.

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Abstract: This paper sets up the reasoning, literature review, and theoretical framework for the examination of listening practices in the telephone negotiations between the FBI and the Branch Davidians outside Waco, TX in the early Spring of 1993. Some research has pushed to examine listening and crisis negotiation from a more communication perspective. This study will contribure to that push by examining listening in the Waco negotiations as a metadiscourse - how participants talk about listening and construct the meaning of effective listening. The Waco negotiations as an unconventional and problematic communicative situation makes the study potentially insightful for listening research and how crisis negotiators are trained. See extended abstract.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In the 1940s the Office of Strategic Services and the FBI were involved in investigating the Jewish/Palestinian terrorist group known as the Irgun. Between 1944 and 1948 these investigative agencies tracked various links to the Irgun in the United States. There are a number of parallels with recent terrorist investigations in the US, including the tracking of airfields to find out if any Irgun affiliates were being trained to fly as well as attempts to cut off terrorist funding in the States. Government documents and reports acquired through the FOIA offer rare insight into one of the first Palestinian terrorist groups and one of America's first manhunts for international terrorists training in the States.