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This is Democracy – Episode 224: FBI and J. Edgar Hoover

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Do You Think Hoover Put His Stamp on the CIA?

I think Hoover put his stamp on the politics. The fact that he stayed for so long really, really makes a difference. It's not clear that Kennedy ever thought he could fire Hoover for a variety of reasons. But you don't have it kind of concentrated in the power of one man. You just get a bunch of different CIA directors. So it's Hoover's doing some things that anyone else would have done but he's doing them in a very particular way.

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