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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

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The FBI and the CIA in the 20th Century

The FBI and the CIA were for the most part rivals rather than cooperators during the 40s and 50s. Hoover had ambitions to kind of expand his footprint globally, but Harry Truman rebuffs him creates the CIA instead. The early CIA has a lot of former FBI agents who kind of flip sides and go with the CIA. There may be more of all of that going on than one can really access.

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