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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

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Hoover's Vision for the FBI

When he became director in 1924, Hoover was just 29 years old. His main charges were to get the FBI out of objectionable political surveillance practices and civil liberties violations. He spent most of his first decade as director focused on kind of perfecting the bureaucracy.

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