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The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover

The LRB Podcast

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Hoover's Contribution to the War

Hoover was 22 when the United States entered the First World War in 1917. His first job, we think, probably had to do with interrogating German nationals. He then moves to this new division, which is known as the Radical Division. Hoover and Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer spearhead a campaign to try to deport anyone in America they can.

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