The Government’s War on the Press

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9. ''Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power''

Book Reveals Extensive Effort by Reagan, FBI to Undermine California’s Student Movement in 1960s

Investigative journalist Seth Rosenfeld’s new book, "Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power," is based on more than 300,000 pages of records Rosenfeld received over three decades through five Freedom of Information lawsuits against the FBI. The book tracks how then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover ordered his agents to investigate and then disrupt the Free Speech Movement that began in 1964 on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. In part two of our interview, Rosenfeld discusses how Ronald Reagan collaborated with the FBI to target California’s student movement and strengthen Reagan’s own rise to power.

Details (and video for those too, eh, tired to read): http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/24/book_reveals_extensive_effort_by_reagan

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