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J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI

    Alt text: Black and white photo of J. Edgar Hoover wearing a patterned tie, white shirt, mid-tone suit jacket with a white pocket handkerchief

    J. Edgar Hoover, who headed the FBI for 48 years, was the nemesis of all human rights activists in the United States. Hoover cast militant Blacks such as Malcolm X as dire threats to national security, and the FBI worked clandestinely through wiretaps and informants to undermine them.

    1959
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    FBI @ http://www.fbi.gov/multimedia/photos.htm, via “J. Edgar Hoover,” Wikipedia