FBI Releases File On BU Professor Howard Zinn

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.

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.

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