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Index
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Abel, Rudolf, 459
Abercrombie, John, 46, 60, 67, 72, 79, 82
Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 231, 233
Agnew, Spiro, 676
Alexander, Jack, 203
All-American Conference, 395
Allen, Robert, 257
Alsop, Joseph, 408
American Bible Society, 365
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
FBI labor organizing and, 284
JEH’s collaboration with, xvi, 276, 284–85, 303, 309
King’s assassination and, 663
Palmer Raids and, 87
postwar Red Scare and, 359–60
World War II and, 232
American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 280
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), 212, 213–14
American Jewish Congress, 526
American Labor Party, 232
American League Against War and Fascism, 210
American Legion
FBI public relations and, 199
late 1950s anticommunist operations and, 463
New Right and, 511
Nixon and, 474
postwar Red Scare and, 333–34, 341, 394–95
Vietnam War and, 655
World War II era political surveillance and, 276, 278, 334
American Newspaper Guild, 211
American Political Science Association, 335
American Protective League (APL), 55–56, 230
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 360
America’s Spiritual Recovery (Elson), 413
anarchist movement, 58, 61, 64
Anderson, Jack, 664, 699–700
Angleton, James, 372, 576
anticommunism
ACLU and, 284
civil rights movement and, 442–43
J. Edgar Hoover Library on Communism, 673–74
Kappa Alpha and, 44
NAACP and, 443–44
New Right and, 509, 510–11
See also anticommunist beliefs under Hoover, J. Edgar; late 1950s anticommunist operations and World War II era political surveillance under Hoover’s FBI; postwar Red Scare
Anti-Defamation League, 424
anti-lynching operations, 95–96
See also anti-lynching operations under Hoover’s FBI
anti-Vietnam War movement, 643–44, 645, 649, 655–56, 657, 717–18
Appel, Charles, 135
Army-McCarthy hearings, 424, 430–35
Arnaz, Desi, 424
Arvad, Inga, 476, 477
Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, 6
B
Bache, Alexander Dallas, 7, 40
Bailey, Mel, 548
Baker, Bobby, 636
Baker, Ella, 525
Baker, Newton D., 120
Baldwin, James, 554–55
Baldwin, Roger, 108–9, 283, 284, 303, 359–60
Ball, Lucille, 424
Banister, Guy, 497, 527
Barker gang, 147, 154, 163, 201
Barnes, George “Machine Gun Kelly,” 147, 153–54
Barr, Joel, 375
Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde, 154, 155, 173
Barton, Bruce, 158
Barton, Clara, 24
Baswell, Frances, 221
Baughman, Thomas Frank
Burns era FBI and, 93
college friendship with JEH, 47
death of, 710
FBI recruitment of, 119
JEH’s celebrity status and, 186
Justice Department recruitment of, 68
marriage of, 138
World War II era FBI expansion and, 240
Baum, W. Carter, 160, 161, 162, 166
Bayliss, Joseph, 125, 212
Bedell Smith, Walter, 418
Belafonte, Harry, 551–52
Bell, Alexander Graham, 24
Belli, Melvin, 665
Belmont, Alan, 457, 557
Bentley, Elizabeth
Cohn and, 428
follow-up on information from, 328–30, 348
Hiss case and, 329
HUAC testimony, 349–50
initial interviews with, 327–28
lack of proof and, 347
notoriety of, 321
Philby and, 381
religion and, 367
Rosenberg case and, 374–75, 378
Venona project and, 346
Harry Dexter White and, 331
Benton, William, 426
Berkman, Alexander, 58, 70, 73
Berle, Adolf, 325
Berlin, Richard, 396, 517, 576
Bernstein, Carl, 725
Biddle, Francis
anti-lynching operations and, 307, 308, 310
firing of, 300
Japanese-American internment and, 259, 260
Nazi saboteurs case and, 262, 263, 266, 268, 269, 271
World War II era political surveillance and, 275–76
World War II Japanese and German detentions and, 252–53
Bilbo, Theodore, 200
Billingsley, Sherman, 188, 189
Birth of a Nation, The, (film) 45–46, 96
Black, Fred, 636
Black activism
Burns era FBI targeting of, 96
Radical Division targeting of, 67–68, 69
See also Black Power movement; civil rights movement; King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Black Panther Party (BPP), 680–86, 689–92, 728
Black Power movement, 658
Black Panther Party COINTELPRO campaign, 680–86, 689–92, 728
FBI Carmichael surveillance, 648–49
“messiah” problem and, 658, 682, 690, 728
New Left and, 649, 658, 681, 682, 683–84, 686, 689–90
race riots and, 650–51, 652
Black v. United States, 636–37
Blossom, Sumner, 167
Boggs, Hale, 570, 571, 574, 703, 714–15, 716
Bohlen, Charles, 408
Bolshevik Revolution, 57, 77, 78
Bonus Expeditionary Force, 130–31, 135
Booker, Simeon, 446, 499
Bowers, Sam, 621
Boy Problem, The, 21
Boys Clubs of America, 363
Boy Scouts of America, 21, 198, 363
Braddock, James, 188
Bradlee, Ben, 607
Branch, Taylor, 526
Brandeis, Louis, 73, 285
Brezhnev, Leonid, 643
Bridges, Harry, 206, 211, 243–44
Broun, Heywood, 177, 206
Browder, Earl, 209, 211, 322, 324
Brown, H. Rap, 651, 652
Brown, Pat, 645–46
Brownell, Herbert, 420, 421, 434, 436, 447, 449
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 449–50, 498
Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,” 226
Buchanan, Pat, 701
Buckley, William F., Jr., xvi, 509–10, 518, 704
Budenz, Louis, 327, 367
Bugas, John, 634
Bundy, McGeorge, 479
Bureau of Investigation (BOI). See Federal Bureau of Investigation
Burger, Peter, 266, 272, 273–74
Burger, Warren, 717
Burgess, Guy, 379–80
Burns, William J, 92, 105
See also Burns era FBI
Burns era FBI
agent characteristics, 112
anti-lynching operations, 95–96
fingerprint system, 95
gangster violence campaigns and, 161
Garvey case, 96
JEH’s assistant director appointment, 92, 94
JEH’s memories of, 93–94
Mann Act and, 94, 95, 96
scandals, 93, 96–97, 99, 232
Byars, Billy, 557
