Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight were charged with conspiracy to destroy federal property; four were charged with conspiracy to cross state lines with intent to incite a riot: and one was charged with using an interstate facility-a telephone-to incite a riot. J. Edgar Hoover announced the indictments and the immediate arrest of seven of the accused from Washington...
...theory." Organizational work is approaching orgiastic proportions: Marxist groups, Maoist groups, Trotskyite groups, socialist groups and plain old American-style Communist groups are all flourishing. Old Left intellectualism has been reborn, mainly in the form of the Young Socialist Alliance, with thanks to a helping hand from J. Edgar Hoover, who labeled the 5,000-member Y.S.A. "the largest and best-organized youth group in left-wing radicalism...
...added that the subcommittee has had in the past "such gentlemen as J. Edgar Hoover" as witnesses, and that no charges are implied by a subpoena...
...F.B.I.: He is one of the few public figures with enough courage to take on J.Edgar Hoover. He recently took action to initiate a Senate investigation of the firing of an F.B.I. agent who had criticized Hoover's regime. Hoover accepted the agent's resignation "with prejudice." McGovern said of the incident, "Such vindictiveness is intolerable on the part of an important federal official...
...next day the Berrigans issued a statement through their lawyers demanding that Hoover either "prosecuteus or publicly retract the charges he has made...