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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI
ChinaTalk
The Rise and Fall of Hoover
Hollywood banned pre-code movies about cops in the 20s and 30s. Hoover was able to control how people think of you, Beverly says. He has such a powerful lever over these folks because he can get them blacklisted and ruin their careers. The one place that I have seen some interest in kind of thinking about Hoover as a model is precisely in the amount of autonomy that he was able to have.
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