The methods discussed include the circulation of defamatory rumors about targeted persons or groups, planting false reports about them in the media, and contacting landlords and employers to cause the eviction or firing of politically objectionable individuals. Other tactics have included obtaining the conviction and imprisonment of activists by introducing fabricated evidence against them at trial, provoking violence within and between groups, and assassination of selected leaders. The discussion also includes an account of how the FBI used street gangs during the late 1960's and early 1970's as surrogates with which to destroy the Black Panther Party. The author joined the FBI in 1951 and retired in 1977. Copies of memoranda, footnotes, index, and appended background information