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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnFEIDvTvtc?modestbranding=1&loop=1&start=3734&end=3739
to discredit King and destabilize the movement,
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but also a whole series of pretty outrageous secret
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activities, including wiretapping King's home and office phones,
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planting bugs in his hotel rooms to record his sex life,
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sending those recordings to King along with
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anonymous threatening notes, and deploying
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but against a wide variety of figures on the left,
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as well as to some degree on the right as well.
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Probably the most famous of those programs in the 1960s
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at the Communist Party, expanded over the course of the 1960s
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to become a program of surveillance and disruption
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aimed at nearly every organization on the left,
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It was a program that involved not only surveillance,
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wiretapping, et cetera, but active, disruptive techniques,
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working with local police to set up activists
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was aimed at the politics of the left,
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against the Ku Klux Klan, against neo-Nazi organizations,
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white supremacist organizations in the 1960s.
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So I think even in this period,
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Hoover has a more complicated story
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than is often portrayed in the public discourse,
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although the basic thrust of COINTELPRO
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as a pretty destructive, outrageous, and illegal program
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that had a dramatic effect on the civil rights
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movement in particular, but the new left more broadly,
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And then we end up back here in 1972
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As I said, he sort of died with his boots on
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as FBI director in May of 1972.
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there was a lot of celebration among those who hated him.
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a reflection on the fact that whatever you thought
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of the 20th century, a central figure in the politics of Washington over that
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time period, and as Richard Nixon said in his eulogy for Hoover, one of the giants
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of American history. And so my goal in writing this book was to sort of take him from
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what I think he had become in the 21st century, which is sort of a
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one-dimensional caricature, and bring him back into the center of this politics
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where he had his hands in so much, but where he wasn't just acting on his own.
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He was acting in concert with many figures in the White House,
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with many figures in Congress, and was an enormously popular
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and influential public servant, for better or for worse.
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I'm happy to take questions in whatever form
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Well, first of all, thank you.
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Wonderful talk on a great subject.
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I just finished rereading 1984.
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COINTELPRO, by the way, is a great new speak word.
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And of course, Orwell is preoccupied with the idea
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that technological advancements would be developed and employed
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of surveillance of individual citizens,
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and like the telescreen in that novel.
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So you talked a bit about Hoover's ideas on science,
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what they were and how did they figure into
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what became his modes for surveillance
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and his work at the FBI?
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So when he became director in the 1920s,
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he advertised himself as one of the great expositors
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And scientific policing was supposed
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to make police more effective and, as Hoover would have
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described it, less brutal at the same time.
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So what scientific policing really meant
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One was harnessing a new set of social science tools that could be put
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to the work of law enforcement. So that was everything from new classification
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and filing systems to things like fingerprints, which are just coming in as
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a form of identification, to crime statistics, right?
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There was no, I mean, in the 1920s and early 30s,
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there's a lot of talk about this as a crisis
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in the United States, but there were no national
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crime statistics being gathered in any effective way.
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So you had perceptions of growing forms of crime,
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you have new things like the automobile
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to cross federal lines, cross state lines.
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that are then driving this push for crime statistics.
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It could be in touch with every police department
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in the country in order to collect these statistics.
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And then it was going to allow him to influence and define
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what crime was, how it was counted,
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and social science tools that includes the FBI Academy.
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So fingerprints fit over there as well a little bit.
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But one of his signature developments in the early 30s
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is the FBI Crime Lab, which is still the FBI Crime Lab
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its own sort of failures and scandals over the last 20
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to employ a bunch of chemists and scientists who
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would be able to be the nation's top forensic experts
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The FBI could help them to figure out what was going on
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and they would get that information back down
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almost all law enforcement is done at the local level.
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And so, to be a federal law enforcement agency,
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which is that relative to the scope of the country,
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the FBI was tiny, and that it didn't have
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or it had very weird areas of jurisdiction, and that is still true today. And so he saw
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these not only as places of kind of scientific progress, but he also saw them as sort of
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strategic points of intervention, a role that the Bureau could play. And I think it's still a really important part of the FBI's image, this kind of, you
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know, I mean, how many television shows do we still have that are about, you know, kind
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of elite forensics labs that are often at the federal level that are doing the work
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that Hoover envisioned. Did Hoover seem to run off the rails in the 60s?
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And do you think that the student protests
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had anything to do with that?
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Yeah, the 60s were definitely the period in which, I think,
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was very bipartisan support and very widespread public support,
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And a lot of it has to do with his attitudes toward and public campaigns against student
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I think he took a lot of what he had done, both in terms of formal techniques and in
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terms of publicity with the Communist Party in the 50s
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