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he actually makes some compelling arguments here, portraying the american communist party as an arm of soviet intelligence, where the FBI mandate includes domestic counter-intelligence. i can see why this argument may have gained favour publicly, while providing cover for egregious abuses of power behind the scenes, such as wiretapping Martin Luther King and attempting to subvert the Civil Rights Movement.

I remember the Florida anti-Communist curriculum very well and Mr. Hoover's book "A Study of Communism." I wish to thank him for my questioning everything as his extremism was too much to take. I traveled the Iron Curtain as a result and also made a study of the Communist world. Pathological anti-Communism ruled south Florida for years and no one questioned who was actually controlling whom. The rabid anti-Castro crew held us all hostage just as others such as the "China Lobby." Americans are really subject to this kind of ideological blindness.

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964) was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage. She joined the American Communist Party in 1936 and late in life, in 1961, became its chairwoman. She died during a visit to the Soviet Union, where she was accorded a state funeral. — Wikipedia

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When she died she left all her belongings to the Catholic Worker.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964) was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage. She joined the American Communist Party in 1936 and late in life, in 1961, became its chairwoman. She died during a visit to the Soviet Union, where she was accorded a state funeral. — Wikipedia

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