This is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) main Headquarters (HQ) file on its counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) against the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) from 1961-71. The FBI also sometimes referred to the program as a "disruption" rather than "counterintelligence" program. These documents were declassified in the 1980s, and do not include the FBI's voluminous field office files from this COINTELPRO. They were downloaded from the FBI's web site: http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/socialist-workers-party/

These documents detail only a small part of the FBI's counterintelligence activities against the SWP. In the book, FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1988), Margaret Jayko claims that the FBI conducted "fifty-seven disruption operations" against the SWP before the 1980s, "20,000 days of wiretaps and 12,000 days of listening 'bugs' between 1943 and 1963," and "208 FBI burglaries of offices and homes of the SWP and its members, resulting in the theft or photographing of 9,864 private documents." (p. 6)

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