Bureau of Public Secrets Records
Bureau of Public Secrets
Beni Memorial Library (Role: Donor)
The collection spans the years 1961-1978 with the bulk of the material spanning the years 1970-1976. It consists of flyers, periodicals, leaflets, pamphlets, and statements which document American situationist, anarchist and libertarian activity and criticism. One significance of this collection is that it contains a critique of the New Left from activists of the same generation. Also included in the collection are items concerned with prisoner rights and eco-anarchism.
Series I, Bureau of Public Secrets, contains a brief history and publications of the Bureau. The folder and item arrangement are as specified by Ken Knabb in the Bureau catalog (folder 1). The second series, Situationist and Anarchist Material, consists chiefly of materials from other American situationist and anarchist organizations. The remainder is from England and the Netherlands. The folders in this series are arranged alphabetically. The collection provides good documentation of the ideas and activities of the Bureau of Public Secrets. However, the situationist and anarchist material in Series II is selective and not comprehensive. A good deal of this material was distributed by the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF). Several periodical atitles in Series II were integrated into Tamiment's holdings.
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Language: Description is in English.
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Series I. Bureau of Public Secrets
Introduction and catalog - July, 1973., 1973
1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous - January-June 1970., 1970
1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
1044 - July-November 1970., 1970
1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contradiction - January, 1971 - May, 1972., 1971-1972
1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bureau of Public Secrets Publications - June, 1973 - March, 1977., 1973-1977
1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ken Knabb - March, 1973 - March, 1977., 1973-1977
1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Series II: Situationist and Anarchist Material
Book and pamphlet order sheets - 1975-1978., 1975-1978
1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Help a Prisoner and Outlaw Torture Organizing Committee (periodical) - August, 1974 - March, 1978., 1974-1978
1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
McNeil pamphlet - 1969., 1969
1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous - 1972 - 1976., 1972-1976
1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
School-Stoppers Textbook - July, 1972., 1972
1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Situationist and Anarchist flyers, leaflets, statements - 1967 - 1978., 1967-1978
1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Situationist and Anarchist periodicals - June, 1969 - November, 1975., 1969-1975
1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Situationist International - May, 1961 - 1973., 1961-1973
1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Upshot - February, 1975 - 1978., 1975-1978
1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Series III: Archived Website, Sep 21, 2007-ongoing
A situationist website, largely consisting of situationist writings in several languages, apparently edited by Ken Knabb.