Betty Medsger
Auteur van The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
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Except for this omission it is a solid book and an excellent place to start to learn about COINTELPRO and its campaign to infiltrate and undermine the peace movement and civil rights movement.
It also provides a healthy dose of skepticism about Mark Felt: at the same time he was working on COINTELPRO to undermine civil rights, trying to find the Media burglars, and protect the Bureau from exposure as the burglars released their stolen documents he was simultaneously also providing Woodward with information on the Watergate break-in. The picture that emerges is not of a man valiantly defending the Constitution from tyranny, but rather someone who routinely violated the Constitution and was engaging in petty office politics brinkmanship to try to manipulate things to land himself a promotion.… (meer)