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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

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The Origins of Co-Intel Pro

As head of the radical division, Hoover helped organize a series of deportation raids aimed at first anarchists and then communists. He writes some of the first briefs on communism and the Communist Party ever produced in the federal government. "The problem with the Palmer raids wasn't that they were wrong or that they violated civil liberties" It was that it was done too publicly, but that everyone could kind of see what was going on," he says.

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