Hoover's Influence on the Liberal Establishment

During the 1940s and during the war there were all sorts of people who we would think of as being on the liberal side of things who are very willing to cooperate with the FBI particularly around anti-communist issues. Hoover himself could in certain cases go ahead and move forward with those coalitions and then break them or often be doing the same thing at the same time so Roger Baldwin the head of the ACLU he has both got Roger Baldwin on the list of people who ought to be detained in internment camps if the United States goes to war with the Soviet Union. Max Ernst wrote this famous embarrassing piece for readers digest in like 1951 that said I used to worry about the FBI but they're