Author
Now Available!
Revised & Updated
All new introduction with furhter revelations on the Ad Hoc Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party, the informant Donald H. Wright, the FBI’s assessment of the RU/RCP, and furher thoughts on “the China franchise.”
The first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, ‘Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl Ives.
A Threat of the First Magnitude
The untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States.
Aaron J. Leonard is the author of Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists, A Threat of the First Magnitude—FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration and The Folk Singers & the Bureau. In 2023 he will publish Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion & Repression 1955-1972. He has a BA in Social Sciences and History magna cum laude, from New York University. He lives in Los Angeles.
email: aaronjleonard[@]gmail.com
Photo: Erika Morillo