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Old August 28th, 2012 #26
Alex Linder
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So then you have Nixon and Watergate. The FBI comes apart at the seams. It's people turn against each other at the top. Hoover dies. The left becomes interested in bringing all the black ops the FBI has practiced into the light. It's clear there will be some kind of reformation to pull the agency out of the Hoover era.

"On August 19, 1976, the FBI raided its own headquarters. Two teams of FBI agents, led by criminal investigators from the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, executed the searches in Washington. ... They discovered a cache of documents no outsider had ever seen. Hoover's "Do Not File" filing system, first created before WWII, was designed to keep evidence of FBI burglaries and bugging concealed forever." (p. 339)

So basically in the mid-1970s you see the focus of the FBI turn against right-wing groups and international enemies of the jews, whereas under Hoover, it was the communists that drew the bulk of the attention.