Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian-born poet, academic, and diplomat. His website is PeterDaleScott.net. This article is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of his book The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy.
By the 1960s Hoover had become one of the most powerful political figures in America, thanks chiefly to his ability to use the FBI’s notorious Division Five (successively named the National Defense Division, the Security Division, and ...