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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI

byBetty Medsger

Betty Medsger tells the full story of eight ordinary activists who burglarized an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971. The files they mailed to journalists exposed domestic surveillance, political spying, and harassment conducted under J. Edgar Hoover, including evidence that helped reveal COINTELPRO. The burglars evaded one of the largest investigations in FBI history and kept their identities secret for decades. Medsger reconstructs their planning, motives, and consequences, showing how civil disobedience, investigative journalism, and personal risk forced public scrutiny of an agency operating beyond constitutional limits.

Publisher

Vintage

Publication date

Oct 07, 2014

Format

Print edition

Pages

624

ISBN

9780804173667