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The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover
The LRB Podcast
The Rise and Fall of the FBI
The FBI is given control over espionage in the US and outside. And it has no experience doing this kind of work. The Americans let British intelligence run operations in Washington, which is usually unthinkable. So with the creation of the CIA, there was a division of powers or a division of spheres between the FBI and the CIA. They conducted espionage abroad. Was Hoover happy about that? No, Hoover wants everything. He wants to do global espionage. And he feels thwarted when Truman doesn't give it to him.
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