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...author's failure to mention any of the assistance given to the Communists during the past six decades. Lance Morrow does not seem to remember the famine during the early years and the food and supplies that were sent, primarily due to the efforts of Herbert Hoover. He has forgotten that foreign capitalists and corporations have been involved in the industrialization of Russia. He does not even recall Lend-Lease...
COINTELPRO. The name itself sounds Orwellian. The late J. Edgar Hoover's aides invented the acronym in 1956. It stood for Counterintelligence Program, a secret, often illegal FBI campaign of surveillance and sabotage against a wide variety of right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last...
...Prostitutes were recruited in 1961 to bait sex traps for the leaders of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro group. The FBI's New York office sent a memo to Hoover suggesting a scheme to have a committee leader "picked up on local charges in the event he places himself in a compromising position...
...died-in-the-wool Republican," he called for an across-the-board income tax of at least 25% and endorsed phone tapping in the interests of national security. "I think it's high time some people were watched," he once said in response to criticism of J. Edgar Hoover...
...lawyer named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from department stores and discounters...