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Hoover | Civil Rights and Dirty Tricks | 3

Legacy

CHAPTER

The Break-In at the FBI Office in Media, Pennsylvania

The chapter recounts the audacious break-in by concerned citizens in 1971 to expose FBI spying, the retrieval of classified documents, and the subsequent publication of the story in the Washington Post, leading to revelations about COINTELPRO and challenging J. Edgar Hoover's authority.

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