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

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

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,

Months later he has totally forgotten about the innocuous E-mail. Based on the merits, he happens to rank Y's bid number one. You can bet as sure as J. Edgar Hoover wore pink poodle skirts, the FBI will conclude this was code from Commissioner X to Walton to vote for Y Armed with the E-mail you can be damn sure t

recount one vignette regarding Justice Goldberg that caused me considerable disappointment. One of the great villains of the day to all liberals was J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI. On several occasions, I let my negative views about Hoover be known to Goldberg, but he never said a word. I didn’t understand