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William J. Maxwell is a professor of English and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of the widely acclaimed F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature, winner of a 2016 American Book Award, and New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. He is also the creator and curator of the F.B. Eyes Digital Archive, which presents high-resolution copies of dozens of FBI files on African American authors and literary institutions obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. He lives with his family in St. Louis, Missouri.

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James Baldwin The FBI File

Skyhorse Publishing

Contents

Introduction: Baldwin and His File after Black Lives Matter, 
Born-Again Baldwin, 
Filed-Again Baldwin, 
What's in — and Not in — This Edition of the Baldwin File, 
Sources of Quotations in the Introduction, 
Permissions, 
Acknowledgments, 
James Baldwin's FBI File, Sampled and Explained, 
1 Graphic Evidence: 1963, 1964, and 1966, 
2 Baldwin's "Frech Accent" on African Independence: June 1961, 
3 Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad Praise Brother Baldwin: July 1961, 
4 Another Country as Obscene Specimen: September and October 1962, 
5 "What Do Our Files Show on James Baldwin?": May 1963, 
6 Baldwin as Homosexual — and Public Enemy: May 1963, 
7 The White House Listens In: June 1963, 
8 The Bureau Prepares Its Counterattack: June 1963, 
9 Buckley versus Baldwin: June 1963, 
10 Another Country's "Value to Students of Psychology and Social Behavior": June, August, and September 1963, 
11 "Better Qualified to Lead a Homo-Sexual Movement than a Civil Rights Movement": September 1963, 
12 Baldwin Baits J. Edgar Hoover — and Bureaucratic Hell Breaks Loose: September 1963, 
13 "Negroes Are Thinking Seriously of Assassinating Martin Luther King": September 1963, 
14 The Bureau Reviews The Fire Next Time: October 1963, 
15 Photos of Baldwin in Selma: October 1963, 
16 A Falling Out with "Sexual Proclivities": October 1963, 
17 The USIA Censors Baldwin: October 1963, 
18 Ask J. Edgar Hoover — Is Baldwin "A Known Communist?": October 1963, 
19 J. Edgar Hoover Asks "Is Baldwin on Our Security Index?": December 1963, 
20 The Biography of James Arthur Baldwin, "Security Matter": December 1963, 
21 "A Dangerous Individual Who Could Be Expected to Commit Acts Inimical to the National Defense": December 1963, 
22 "Hello, Baby, How Are You?" — FBI Sexual Linguistics: January 1964, 
23 Baldwin Meets a Deadline: January 1964, 
24 Baldwin Speaks — after "Robert Dillon [the] Beatnik Type Entertainer": January 1964, 
25 Public Shaming through Public Sources: January 1964, 
26 The FBI Combs Baldwin's Passport: February 1964, 
27 Signifying Nothing: February 1964, 
28 "An Attempt to Interview Him Could Prove Highly Embarrassing": March 1964, 
29 Baldwin as COINTELPRO Audience: April 1964, 
30 The Bureau Stalks Baldwin on Broadway: May 1964, 
31 Baldwin and His "Aliases": June 1964, 
32 The Blood Counters and Baldwin Countersurveillance, Part 1: June and July 1964, 
33 The Blood Counters and Baldwin Countersurveillance, Part 2: July 1964, 
34 "Isn't Baldwin a Well Known Pervert?" — Hoover Weighs In: July 1964, 
35 Baldwin the Riot-Starter: July and August 1964, 
36 The Blood Counters and Baldwin Countersurveillance, Part 3: August 1964, 
37 Trashing Baldwin: September 1964, 
38 "Baldwin Will Quit U.S. if Goldwater Wins": October 1964, 
39 Citizen Literary Criticism, Part 1: Texas on Another Country: January 1965, 
40 Citizen Literary Criticism, Part 2: Mississippi on Blues for Mister Charlie: April and May 1965, 
41 Buckley on "The Baldwin Syndrome": June 1965, 
42 Where in the World Was James Baldwin?: March, April, and October 1966, 
43 Baldwin Reported to the Secret Service — the Author as Assassin: April 1966, 
44 White House Visits and Name Checks: May 1966, 
45 Sharing with the State Department — and the CIA: November and December 1966, 
46 FBI Internationalism in Action — Baldwin Traced and Translated in Turkey: November and December 1966, 
47 An Airline Source and a Pretext Interview: January 1967, 
48 Bureaucratic Discipline and the "Subject's Eviction from an Apartment in Turkey for Homosexual Activities": March and April 1967, 
49 Back in the USA — with a "Lookout" Waiting: September 1967, 
50 Of London, Baldwin's New York "Wife," and "Foreign Auto Sales": December 1967, 
51 Baldwin and Other "Independent Black Nationalist Extremists": January 1968, 
52 The Bureau of Accurate Statistics: February 1968, 
53 Clippers and Informers on The Life of Malcolm X: March 1968, 
54 "Two Separate Films on the Life of the Subject": March 1968, 
55 The Problem with Paraphrase: April 1968, 
56 Baldwin the Black Panther: May 1968, 
57 Truman Capote, FBI Source, and James Baldwin, "Negro": May and June 1968, 
58 Returning on a Jet Plane: July 1968, 
59 "Hostesses for This Party Wore Long African Style Clothes" — Baldwin Speaks for SNCC: August 1968, 
60 Flying the Coop and "Presently Checking His Baggage through Customs": February and April 1969, 
61 Indiscreet Book Buying: July 1969, 
62 Baldwin in Other FBI Files: July 1969, 
63 "Baldwin's Method of Working Is Strange": December 1969, 
64 Citizen Literary Criticism, Part 3: California on The Fire Next Time: April 1970, 
65 Baldwin Testifies for "Sister Angela" — and the Bureau Relaxes Its Vigil: January, May, June, and August 1971, 
66 Rapping on A Rap on Race: April and September 1971, 
67 From the Security to the Administrative Index: April 1972, 
68 The Last Book Purchase-No Name in the Street: July 1972, 
69 The Last Translation — "L'Express Continues with James Baldwin": August 1972, 
70 Baldwin off the Administrative Index — The FBI Says Goodbye: March 1974, 
Sources of Quotations in the Commentaries, 
Index to the Introduction and Commentaries,