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HOOVER WANTED TO LOCK UP 12,000 AMERICANS FOR DISAGREEING WITH HIM
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a
plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to
12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly
declassified document. Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July
7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no
evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president
approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in
military and federal prisons.
Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to
"protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New
York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site. The plan
called for the FBI to apprehend all potentially dangerous individuals
whose names were on a list Hoover had been compiling for years.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/22/america/Hoover-Mass-Arrests.php
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ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS ONE OF THEM. . .
BBC - A new book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J Edgar
Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even
a Soviet spy.
Uncovered FBI files are revealed in a book by Fred Jerome who says it
was a clash of cultures - Einstein's challenge and change with Hoover's
order and obedience.
From the time Einstein arrived in the US in 1933 to the time of his
death, in 1955, the FBI files reveal that his phone was tapped, his mail
was opened and even his trash searched. . .
The Einstein File begins with a request by J Edgar Hoover in 1950:
"Please furnish a report as to the nature of any derogatory information
contained in any file your bureau may have on the following person."
That person was Albert Einstein, and the request intensified a secret
campaign to discredit him.
Hoover was worried about Einstein's liberal intellectualism and his
dabbling in politics, something that has been forgotten today. It has
been overtaken by Einstein's absent-minded professor image. But Einstein
was outspoken against social injustice and violations of civil rights. .
.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2033324.stm
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HOOVER WANTED TO LOCK UP 12,000 AMERICANS FOR DISAGREEING WITH HIM
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a
plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to
12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly
declassified document. Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July
7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no
evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president
approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in
military and federal prisons.
Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to
"protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New
York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site. The plan
called for the FBI to apprehend all potentially dangerous individuals
whose names were on a list Hoover had been compiling for years.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/22/america/Hoover-Mass-Arrests.php
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ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS ONE OF THEM. . .
BBC - A new book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J Edgar
Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even
a Soviet spy.
Uncovered FBI files are revealed in a book by Fred Jerome who says it
was a clash of cultures - Einstein's challenge and change with Hoover's
order and obedience.
From the time Einstein arrived in the US in 1933 to the time of his
death, in 1955, the FBI files reveal that his phone was tapped, his mail
was opened and even his trash searched. . .
The Einstein File begins with a request by J Edgar Hoover in 1950:
"Please furnish a report as to the nature of any derogatory information
contained in any file your bureau may have on the following person."
That person was Albert Einstein, and the request intensified a secret
campaign to discredit him.
Hoover was worried about Einstein's liberal intellectualism and his
dabbling in politics, something that has been forgotten today. It has
been overtaken by Einstein's absent-minded professor image. But Einstein
was outspoken against social injustice and violations of civil rights. .
.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2033324.stm
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