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RE: How long has the Left controlled the FBI? Let's start looking for evidence.
I'd put it at the beginning at the Church Committee... a lot of the old guard were put out to pasture
And on the defensive.
The FBI was definitely anti-leftist, and loud about it up until then. I'll add more to this in the next install
Okay. Going into this I pegged them as anti-extremist but I'll see what you say.
they were anti-extremist (the first COINTELPRO kill was of a young woman that was an accomplice to a Klan bomber), but Hoover started out hunting Reds, and he hated them.
You could say with some accuracy that the FBI was a reflection of Hoover until his death....middle class oriented and proper. Hoover was an excellent burrocrat even past the blackmail files, and an excellent media manipulator. He was so tight assed about the appearance of the Bureau that (IIRC) he fired a guy for having a sweaty handshake! Either that, or something similarly outrageous
To your point...
Hoover, J. E. (1969). Study in Marxist Revolutionary Violence: Students for a Democratic Society, 1962-1969, A. Fordham L. Rev., 38, 289.
I doubt he wrote that himself, but he did put those thoughts in his own name