Labeling a social worker a national security risk: a memoir.
Social Work › Vol. 40 Nbr. 5, September 1995
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Labeling a social worker a national security risk: a memoir.
A recent flood of revelations about the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics's Komitet Gosudarstvenoi Bezopasnosti (KGB) focused attention on the ways in which democratic as well as authoritative governments have used political repression as an instrument of the state. These revelations detailed the huge amounts of information - "files" - the government amassed about citizens using methods that defy imagination. Friends, relatives, and colleagues were used to build up files in violation of fundamental civil rights. I have a FBI file (FBI, 1987). It has been estimated that there are several million such files in existence (Schrecker, 1992).
Few social workers today realize that their values, views, perspectives, and ideology about society and social work and social welfare would have landed them in difficulty with federal and state governm...See the full content of this document
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