Chicago Police Department Red Squad and related records, ca. 1930s-1986 (bulk 1963-1974).

ArchivalResource

Chicago Police Department Red Squad and related records, ca. 1930s-1986 (bulk 1963-1974).

Card indexes; files containing reports and correspondence about persons and organizations investigated as possible political subversives, scattered photographs, and some materials created by the persons or organizations under investigation, such as newsletters, brochures, and correspondence; plus some administrative records of the Chicago Police Department's Security Operations Section. Names of police department personnel and civilian informants were deleted by the Chicago Police Department from these files. A court order states that the information contained in these files is not necessarily accurate and was not verified before it was recorded.

205 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8086509

Chicago History Museum

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Getzendanner, Susan C., 1939-

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Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept. Intelligence Section.

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Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept.

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