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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

CHAPTER

The Power Broker

Hoover and Moses were both ambitious young bureaucrats who gained their skills just before the moment that really government power and ambition was going to explode. It also that accident of timing meant that there weren't a lot of controls at that point, right? So I think the same thing is true of Moses when he kind of comes into those positions. You know, there's not a lot of sense of how much power is actually concentrated in those positions.

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