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ch fun to belong to any more. But there’ s a way to belong without going to jail. You have to join the FBI first. Most of the members do it that way. J. Edgar Hoover is the head of the Communist Party. Why are Communists such a threat to us? Because they advocate the violent overthrow of the government. That is w
rom an ACLU official to a Peabody Award- winning journalist to members of the intelligence community who knew that sort of thing actually does go on. Daniel Ellsberg said, “Maybe it was just because | wanted to believe it so badly.” One caller claimed that he could determine, by feeding the article into a compute
nt. East Germany was not the only place in the Cold War era using surveillance to suppress dissent. Even in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI bugged the phones of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr, to root out suspected subversive elements. Most Americans viewed this
lower Bradley Birkenfeld: David Kocieniewski, “Whistle-Blower Awarded $104 Million by LR.S.,” New York Times, Sept. 11, 2012. @ 147. whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg: Martin Arnold, “Pentagon Papers Charges Are @ Dismissed,” New York Times, May 11, 1973. 147 FBI office in Media: Mark Mazzetti, “Burglars Who Took
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ump and Russia? PK: I read one article where an uniden- tified Russian official used the phrase “useful idiot”. That’s really what it is. It’s like J. Edgar Hoover; he stayed around for decades [via] blackmail. I think it’s the same thing, You don’t have to say it, you know. Hoover would just go to JFK and say,
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023639 →piece, there were people who claimed to remember a pho- tograph! (laughs) People who said they believed the article, if only for a moment, included Daniel Ellsberg, who released The Pen- 2“Trump’s Presidency is Doomed,” The Washington Post, January 16, 2017. tagon Papers. He said the reason he be- lieved it, w
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