G-Man, page 152
Watergate scandal, 723–24, 725–27
White House homosexuality rumors, 695
No-Conscription League, 58
Noisette, Sam, 282, 638, 710, 721
Norris, George, 233
Novak, Robert, 706
Novello, Angie, 556
Novotny, Mariella, 539
O
O’Dell, Hunter Pitts, 527–30, 542–43, 550–51
See also King/communism investigations under Hoover’s FBI
O’Donnell, John, 257, 423
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 296, 297, 298, 302–3, 327, 328, 419
O’Leary, Jeremiah, 664, 711
Olney, Warren, 571
O’Neal, William, 690–91
Operation SOLO, 460–62, 472, 525, 529, 544, 549, 572, 644, 656
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 429
organized crime
CIA and, 491–93, 572
Kennedy family and, 488, 531–32
Prohibition and, 127
See also organized crime investigations under Hoover’s FBI
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 554, 557–59, 560, 561–62, 563–64, 571–73
Our Inner Conflicts (Horney), 401
Oursler, Fulton, 362–63
Overman, Lee, 63
P
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 63–64, 65, 66–67, 71–73, 84, 87–88, 162, 730
See also Palmer Raids
Palmer Raids (1919–20), 75–87
FBI role and, 94
FDR administration and, 149
Garvey and, 69, 96
Goldman deportation, 61, 70–71, 72, 73–74, 82, 92
JEH promotion and, 64, 67
JEH’s anticommunist briefs, 77–78
JEH’s information system and, 69–70, 77, 78
JEH’s role in, 62, 68–69, 75–76, 75, 79–80, 81, 84, 88
Palmer testimony on, 87
political success of, 72–73, 75
Rule 22 and, 78–79
scale of, 80–81
targets of, 79, 85–86
See also Palmer Raids backlash
Palmer Raids backlash
Church Committee and, 730
criticisms of JEH and, 85, 88, 110
domestic fascism surveillance and, 208
gradual nature of, 80
JEH’s targeting of critics, 76, 84, 85, 86–87, 99
Poindexter accusations, 71–72
Post and, 82–86
postwar Red Scare criticisms and, 360
Stone and, 106, 108
World War II political surveillance and, 232
Papich, Samuel, 305, 306, 491
Parker, Dorothy, 219
Parker, Mack Charles, 497
Patigian, Haig, 223
Patterson, Robert, 448
Peale, Norman Vincent, 364–65, 366, 704
Pearson, Drew, 233, 300, 363–64, 417, 663–64
Pendergast, Thomas, 295
Penn, Lemuel, 617
Pennington, Lee, 394–95
Pentagon Papers, 705–6
Peress, Irving, 430
Persons in Hiding (Hoover), 224–25
Philbrick, Herbert, 355, 389, 463, 512–13, 517, 519
Philby, Harold “Kim,” 370–72, 373, 379–82, 383
Phillips, Seymor Fred, 608, 609
Pidgeon, Walter, 185
Pike, Otis, 728
Plessy v. Ferguson, 439
Plympton, Roy, 53
Poindexter, Miles, 71–72, 76
Pollard, John Garland, 43
Poor People’s Campaign, 658
Popov, Dusko, 256
Porter, Cole, 189
Port Huron Statement, 644–45
Post, Louis, 82–86
postwar Red Scare, 320, 333, 345
American Legion and, 333–34, 341, 394–95
Army-McCarthy hearings, 424, 430–35
Bentley investigation, 327–29, 330, 331, 347, 348, 349–50, 382
Chambers allegations, 321, 325, 326, 350–53
Cohn and, 427
Communist Control Act (1954), 436
Coplon case, 353–55, 356–57, 358, 359, 414
criticism of JEH and, 359–61, 379
decline of, 453
Eisenhower administration and, 411, 436
FBI private connections and, 395–96
government employees and, 323, 324–25, 326–27, 328–29, 347, 420
Hollywood and, 323, 342–44
Hollywood blacklist, 344
HUAC and, 338–39, 340–44, 349–53, 414–15, 527
informants, 355–56
Institute of Pacific Relations and, 392
JEH’s honors for, 379, 437, 452–53, 454–55
JEH’s popularity and, 292, 357, 422, 425, 452–53, 454–55, 469
JEH’s religion and, 359, 361–66
JEH’s Soviet espionage evidence and, 325–26
JEH’s victory over Joseph McCarthy, xvi, 425, 435, 437
Lavender Scare and, 399
McCarran Act and, 390–91
Nixon’s role in, 352, 390–91, 414–15
Philby and, 370–72, 373, 379–82, 383
post-Army-McCarthy hearings intensification, 435–37
Red Scare (1919–20) and, 320–21
Republican midterm victory (1946) and, 334–35, 342
Responsibilities Program, 392–93, 439, 646
RFK and, 480
Rosenberg case, 370, 372–73, 374–79, 381–82, 427
secrecy and, 357–58
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and, 391–93, 410, 421–22
Smith Act and, 348–49, 355–56, 357, 427, 453, 460, 461
Soviet atomic capabilities and, 371, 372, 378
Truman administration and, 321, 330–32, 333–34, 339–40, 351, 352, 390, 391, 420–21
U.S.-Soviet alliance and, 322–23
Voice of America and, 428–29
war contingency initiatives, 347–48, 391
Washington, D.C. and, 402
Weisband case, 381
—Venona project:
continued secrecy and, 358
Coplon case and, 353, 354
FBI access to, 345–47
Philby and, 372, 379–81, 382
Rosenberg case and, 370, 374, 375, 376–77, 378
Harry Dexter White and, 420–21
See also Hiss, Alger; McCarthy, Joseph; White, Harry Dexter
Powell, James, 594
President’s Committee on Civil Rights, 315, 316–18
Prichard, Edward, 300
Pritchett, Laurie, 546
Probasco, James, 164
Progressive Labor Party (PLP), 688
progressivism
Burns and, 94
civil service values and, 103
JEH’s conservatism and, xvi
racism and, 39
Social Gospel and, 34
Washington, D.C. and, 39
Prohibition, 113–14, 127, 128, 152–53
Public Enemy, The, 170, 176
Purvis, Melvin
background of, 139–40
FBI career of, 140–41, 144–46
gangster violence campaigns and, 158–59, 161, 162–63, 164, 165, 179
JEH’s rejection of, 165, 179–80
marriage rumors, 221
notoriety of, 179
police tactics and, 157–58
relationship with JEH, 137, 139, 141–44, 536
suicide of, 536
Tolson on, 182
violence and, 157
Putnam, Herbert, 40, 41–42, 54
R
race riots
Harlem riot (1964), 594–95, 600–601, 651–52
Kerner Commission on, 652–53, 672
King’s assassination and, 660, 661–62
Long, Hot Summer Riots (1967), 650–52
Washington, D.C. (1919), 67–68
World War II and, 283
racism
civil rights responses and, 440–41
Congress and, 336
Eastland and, 444
fascism and, 207
FBI hiring and, 117, 282, 312, 316, 443
Japanese-American internment and, 258–59
Jim Crow segregation, 207, 281, 438
Kappa Alpha and, 38, 43, 44–46, 47, 63, 96, 279, 440–41
Kerner Commission on, 653, 672
law-and-order rhetoric and, 672
progressivism and, 39
Southern Manifesto, 450, 478
Truman and, 315
Washington, D.C. real estate and, 222
Washington, D.C. voting and, 13
Wilson administration and, 38, 39–40, 45
World War I and, 59
World War II era, 281
See also anti-lynching operations and civil rights enforcement and under Hoover’s FBI; civil rights movement; Ku Klux Klan; race riots; segregation; racist beliefs under Hoover, J. Edgar
Radical Division
information system, 68–70, 77, 78
JEH’s anticommunist beliefs and, 71, 324
JEH’s role in, 61–62
limitations of, 453–54, 685–86
Palmer congressional testimony and, 87
race riots and, 67–68
renaming of, 88
Stone and, 107
See also General Intelligence Division under Federal Bureau of Investigation; Palmer Raids
Randolph, A. Philip, 280–81, 525
Rankin, Jeannette, 253
Rankin, J. Lee, 571, 574–75
Rankin, John E., 336, 339
Ray, James Earl, 654, 662, 664, 665–66
Reagan, Ronald, xvi, 343–44, 704, 717, 730–31
Reber, Miles, 431
Red Scare (1919–20), 62, 64, 65–66, 71
See also Palmer Raids; Radical Division
Red Scare. See postwar Red Scare; Red Scare (1919–20)
Reeb, James, 622
Reid, Ogden Rogers, 396
Reuther, Walter, 517
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), 649
Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), 688
Richardson, Sid, 415–16, 417, 478
Richetti, Adam, 151
Robb, Lynda Bird, 622, 713–14
Roberts, Owen, 271
See also Roberts Commission
Roberts Commission, 257–58
Robertson, Carole, 554
Robeson, Paul, 210
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 22
Roche, Leo Joseph, 227
Rochemont, Louis de, 301
Rockefeller, Nelson, 473, 595
Roemer, William, 487, 489, 638
Rogers, Lela, 220–21, 344
Rogers, Will, 161
Rogers, William, 450, 463, 678
Rometsch, Ellen, 539–40
Romney, George, 650
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 286, 389–90
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR), and administration
