Breaking into the F.B.I.
Criminal
Stay in Line, We're Your Government. Don't Make Trouble.
"We're your government. We know what's best. Don't make trouble," Hoover told a group of young men in the early 1980s. "If you don't stay in line, in whatever realm that might be, we're going we're going to try to stop you," he warned them. The FBI had files on almost every writer and artist from James Baldwin to ray bradbury; many are now public.
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