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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

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Co-Intell Pro: A Secret Program of Disruption Aimed at Getting the Communist Party to Collapse

Co-IntellPro is a secret program of disruption aimed at trying to get the party to collapse from within. Hoover was very worried that the rest of the American public, including the Supreme Court and the courts more generally, were sort of going wax on the Communist right. Some of the stuff that I really love from those files is just this basic, like you want to ruin a social movement,. make the meetings take too long and make them really boring and be like the guy who has really more of a comment than a question.

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