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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

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The Rise and Fall of Hoover

The appeal of the Soviet idea in the late 30s, 40s and 50s was something that actually created a lot of problems for the US government trying to keep hold of state secrets. The FBI had pretty good reason to think that they were in fact guilty, figures like Julius Rosenberg and others. And then some really interesting cases where, in fact, the FBI knew particularly through the Bonona project, which was this secret Cold War decryption project.

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