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How Hoover Took Down the Klan

Por: The Atlantic Opinion November 20, 2022

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The FBI’s successful campaign against white supremacists is also a cautionary tale.Getty ; The AtlanticNovember 20, 2022, 6 AM ETIn 1964, during a phone call with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about setting up the new FBI office in Mississippi, President Lyndon B. Johnson broached the idea of really doing something about the Klan. He had been up late reading the bureau’s reports on the Communist Party, with their jaw-dropping inside details.... + full article



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