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Peer reviewedTheoharis, Athan G. – History Teacher, 1990
Follows development of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Finds the agency monitored dissident activities and investigated outside its defined jurisdiction with presidential support. States J. Edgar Hoover expanded the FBI's information-gathering procedures beyond legal boundaries resulting in a powerful, autonomous agency that poisoned U.S.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Confidentiality, Dissent, Federal Government
