FBI documents showing surveillance of Puerto Rican leftists to be published online
October 27, 2003 | By The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) As many as 120,000 pages of FBI documents detailing spy activities against Puerto Ricans will soon be published on the Internet.
The documents will be posted online as early as this spring by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, Newsday reports in Monday editions.
"There are lessons here on how much energy and resources were spent on political persecution of dissident groups," Ramon Bosque-Perez told Newsday. He is a researcher in charge of the documents at Hunter.
The papers show that FBI agents and police have long spied on Puerto Ricans who advocated independence for the island, Bosque-Perez said.
Three years ago, FBI officials acknowledged under questioning from Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) that it tracked activists in both Puerto Rico and New York. The agency later collected nearly two million pages of documents about its surveillance activities and began handing the files over to Serrano, who then gave them to Bosque-Perez.
The documents will be published incrementally to www.centropr.org, the Hunter center's Web site.
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Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press
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