G-Man, page 149
warnings to King, 529–30, 549–50
—King’s assassination investigation, 654, 657–67
criticisms of, 663
identification of Ray, 662
initial investigation, 659, 660–61
JEH’s animosity toward King and, 661–62, 666–67
JEH’s racist beliefs and, 657–58
“messiah” problem and, 658
race riots and, 660, 661–62
Ray’s arrest, 664–66
RFK’s presidential campaign and, 663–64
—late 1950s anticommunist operations, 452–65, 452
civil rights enforcement and, 441–43
civil rights movement surveillance and, 443, 449
COINTELPRO creation and, xv, 455–59
criticisms of, 464
death of Joseph McCarthy and, 452–53
Eisenhower administration and, 454–55, 462
honors for JEH and, 452–53, 454–55
Masters of Deceit, 452, 462–63, 497, 510–11, 514
Nixon and, 462, 472
Operation SOLO, 460–62, 472, 525, 656
—local official relations:
anti-lynching operations and, 309, 310, 312, 316, 318, 500
Black Panther Party COINTELPRO campaign and, 682, 690–92
civil rights enforcement and, 496–98, 500–501, 502, 503, 504–5, 506, 545, 596
Democratic National Convention protests (1968) and, 675–76
FDR administration years, 150
Lavender Scare and, 405–6
Law Enforcement Bulletin and, 134–35
Prohibition and, 114, 115
race riots and, 283
statistics and, 128, 129, 134
World War II era political surveillance and, 278, 284
World War II political surveillance and, 230
—Nazi saboteurs case (1942), 262–74
Coast Guard encounter, 262–63, 270
Dasch and, 264–67, 268–69, 270, 272, 273
military commission prosecution, 262, 268–69, 272
public relations and, 266–67, 269–70, 274
sentencing, 272–73
Supreme Court and, 271–72, 273
—1930s political surveillance:
Black activists as targets, 210
communists as targets, 209–12
domestic fascism and, 204, 207–8
FDR general intelligence directive (1936), 204–7, 212
labor movement and, 211–12
sharecropper organizing and, 210–11
—1960s anticommunist operations:
JEH’s anticommunist beliefs and, 643
Operation SOLO and, 529, 544, 549, 572, 644
See also King/communism investigations above
—Nixon administration years:
administration conflict with FBI, 696–97
COINTELPRO exposure, 701–3, 704, 727
conservative support for JEH, 704
FBI growth, 697
JEH retirement pressure, 706–8, 711–12
JEH’s reputation decline, 699–700, 703–4, 705, 711
JEH successor possibilities, 697–98
New Left and, 693–94, 695–96, 726
Nixon’s support for JEH, xiii, 437, 677–79, 704–5
Pentagon Papers, 705–6
personnel management, 697, 699
White House homosexuality rumors, 695
White House wiretapping, xvi, 694–95, 706, 707, 719, 726
—organized crime investigations:
JEH’s initial rejection of responsibility for, 127
JFK’s sexual indiscretions and, 531–32
1950s initiatives, 486–87, 488–89
RFK as attorney general and, 485–86, 488, 489–90, 492
wiretapping/bugging and, 487–88, 490–91, 492, 534
See also gangster violence campaigns
—personnel management, 120–23
Catholicism and, 368
conservative moralism and, 113–14, 121–22, 197
criticisms of, 117, 212–13, 640–42
employee social activities and, 131, 132–33
favoritism, 121, 125, 133, 183–84
FBI civil service regulations exemption and, 133–34, 238
female employees, 138, 277
labor organizing and, 212–14
Library of Congress and, 41–42, 69
Nixon administration era, 697, 699
racist hiring practices, 117, 282, 312, 316, 443
religion and, 365
RFK as attorney general and, 482–83
rigidity, 120–21, 124–25, 212–13, 482–83
social relationships and, 139, 144–45, 180, 184
Tolson and, 181–82
welfare capitalism and, 131
World War II era political surveillance and, 241
yes-men problem and, 133
—political surveillance:
civil rights resistance groups and, 444–45, 448–49
domestic fascism and, 204, 207–8
Eisenhower administration and, 420
espionage/counterespionage, 214–16, 244–48
Executive Order 10450 and, 420–21
gay rights and, 537
HUAC and, 228
wartime intelligence, 228–36, 238
See also civil rights movement surveillance, COINTELPRO, and 1930s political surveillance above; postwar Red Scare; wiretapping/bugging and World War II era political surveillance below
—postwar era:
Congressional support, 336–37, 340
House Appropriations Committee investigative staffing, 337–38
international intelligence debate, 294, 296–99, 302–6
Lavender Scare, 404, 405–6, 407, 408–9
Truman administration relations and, 287, 293–96, 293, 299–300, 306, 340, 342, 351
See also anti-lynching operations above; postwar Red Scare
—public relations, 167–70
conservative moralism and, 191–92, 191, 195–96, 197, 224–25, 291
Cummings and, 169–70
FDR administration and, 167–68
gangster violence campaigns and, 170, 173, 175, 201
G-Man image and, 167, 175–77
Hollywood and, 175–78, 182, 301–2
JEH’s celebrity status and, 184–85
JEH’s New Year’s message (1935), 171–72
McKellar budget challenge and, 200–201
Nazi saboteurs case and, 266–67, 269–70, 274
New Deal and, 168
Nichols and, 197–98, 199
parole system and, 191, 192–94
Pearl Harbor attack and, 257
speaker’s bureau, 197, 198–99
Ten Thousand Public Enemies and, 174–75, 182
Tolson and, 178, 182, 185
War on Crime and, 627, 628, 633–36
Winchell and, 186–87
World War II era political surveillance and, 249, 301–2
World War II Japanese and German detentions and, 255
—wiretapping/bugging:
Black Power movement and, 648
Eisenhower administration and, 420
gangster violence campaigns and, 148, 157, 161
Hopkins and, 286
initial rejection of, 111, 127, 135
investigations into, 232, 360, 636–38
on Martin Luther King, Jr., xv, 551, 553, 582–83, 584–88, 607, 610–11, 614, 663–65, 718–19, 728
King/communism investigations and, 524, 530, 541, 544, 549
Ku Klux Klan COINTELPRO initiatives and, 617
Mann Act raids and, 202
1960s restrictions, 638, 694
Nixon administration White House requests, 694–96, 706, 707, 719, 726
organized crime investigations and, 487–88, 490–91, 492, 534
postwar Red Scare and, 329, 330, 354, 357, 374
on South Vietnamese embassy, 676
Truman on, 295, 299–300
Warren Commission and, 577
World War II political surveillance and, 232, 235–36, 238, 239, 242, 243–44, 321
on Malcolm X, 584
—World War II era political surveillance:
ad hoc approach, 276
agent recruitment, 240
agent training, 240–41
American Legion and, 276, 278, 334
British intelligence and, 245–46, 373
civil rights movement and, 280–81
communists as targets, 323–24
criticisms, 104, 227, 231–36, 243–44, 256–58
espionage/counterespionage, 244–48
expanded areas of (1942–45), 275–76
FBI expansion and, 104, 237, 238–40, 241–42, 277
FDR authorization (1940), 238–39
FDR’s secret directives, 228–29, 338
fifth column threat and, 238, 239
Great Sedition Trial, 285
informants and, 243, 244, 278
Japanese and German detentions, 251–55, 260
JEH as FDR administration insider and, 286
JEH’s honors for, 293, 302, 333, 336
Latin American operations, 238, 245, 247, 277–78, 296, 297–98, 302, 305–6
Manhattan Project and, 285, 299
Peral Harbor attack and, 256–58
personnel management and, 241
postwar Red Scare and, 320–21
public relations and, 249, 301–2
racial issues and, 276
Eleanor Roosevelt and, 286
Sebold case, 248–49, 301–2
sexual policing and, 276, 279–80
Socialist Workers Party trial, 244
targets of, 242–43, 252, 255
wiretapping/bugging and, 232, 235–36, 238, 242, 243–44, 321
World War I political surveillance and, 229–30, 284
See also Nazi saboteurs case above
Hope, Bob, 333
Hopkins, Harry, 286
Hoppe, Arthur, 634
Horney, Karen, 401
Hosty, James, 556, 557, 560, 564, 573, 578
Hottel, Guy, 120, 183–84, 186, 189, 218, 221, 227
House on 92nd Street, The, 301–2
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 228, 338–39, 340–44, 349–53, 414–15, 421, 527, 646
Howard, T. R. M., 447–48
Hruska, Roman, 576, 665
Hull, Cordell, 206, 279
Humphrey, Hubert, 568, 674–75, 677
Humphreys, Murray, 487, 492
Hundley, William, 534
Hunt, H. L., 512
Hunt, Howard, 726
Hunt, Lester, 408
Hunt, Lester C., Jr., 408
Huston, Thomas Charles, 694, 695, 696, 726
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