J. Edgar Hoover & The FBI
Warfare
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How Successful Was He in Combatting Communism?
One of his first battles in there was against the Bolsheviks. And that was during, I guess during the First World War. He happened to arrive at the Justice Department at a moment when it's beginning to do all sorts of experiments with first wartime surveillance and then peace time surveillance of political radicals. These weren't issues on which he had very fixed ideas, I think,. Other than a kind of general suspicion of dissenters and radicals that anyone might have.
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