Published July 31, 2010
The FBI file on BU professor Howard Zinn reveals that someone within the upper ranks of the university was "highly disturbed" by Zinn's anti-police statements in 1970.
In 1970, an FBI informant in the upper ranks of Boston University tried to oust Howard Zinn, the late political science professor and rabble-rouser.
The FBI on Friday released its 423-page file on Zinn, a sort of time capsule of BU’s tumultuous political past. The news blog TPMMuckraker has done a great job combing through the file and reporting on the interesting bits.
The FBI file was released in three parts, but I combined them into one document. You can read through the file on Scribd.