J. Edgar Hoover
mandated the FBI
to investigate TO
. The FBI ensured that she was fired from her job, and two agents visited to interrogate her in April.
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Tillie Olsen
The next month J. Edgar Hoover
himself wrote to an agent in San Francisco about her.
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She was engaged during the 1950s in activities which the FBI
judged to be subversive, and duly kept...
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27 October 1941: US President Roosevelt made a strongly pro-war...
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27 October 1941
US President Roosevelt
made a strongly pro-war speech drawing attention to Nazi
designs against South America (and therefore the USA), based partly on intelligence from BSC or British Security Coordination
.
Boyd, William. “The Secret Persuaders”. The Guardian, 19 Aug. 2006, pp. Weekend 26 - 31.
