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Hoover's Role in the American Communist Party
Hoover graduated from law school in the spring of 1917. His first duty was with German internment, which is something that we tend to forget about. He turned out to be so good at it that when the war came to an end, the Justice Department created a new division called the Radical Division. It was supposed to be its first peacetime effort at conducting surveillance of political radicals and black activists.