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100 1  Medsger, Betty. 
245 14 The burglary :|bthe discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's secret 
       FBI /|cby Betty Medsger. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2014. 
300    1 online resource. 
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520    The never-before-told full story of the history-changing 
       break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a 
       group of unlikely activists--quiet, ordinary, hardworking 
       Americans--that made clear the shocking truth and 
       confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar 
       Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the 
       U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.
       It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the 
       Vietnam War ... A small group ofactivists--eight men and 
       women--the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, 
       inspired by Daniel Berrigan's rebellious Catholic peace 
       movement, set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, 
       method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once
       and for all that the government was operating outside the 
       laws of the land. The would-be burglars--nonpro's--were 
       ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of 
       religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a 
       physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock 
       picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her 
       family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German 
       civilians under Nazi rule. Betty Medsger's extraordinary 
       book re-creates in resonant detail how this group of 
       unknowing thieves, in their meticulous planning of the 
       burglary, scouted out the low-security FBI building in a 
       small town just west of Philadelphia, taking into 
       consideration every possible factor, and how they planned 
       the break-in for the night of the long-anticipated boxing 
       match between Joe Frazier (war supporter and friend to 
       President Nixon) and Muhammad Ali (convicted for refusing 
       to serve in the military), knowing that all would be 
       fixated on their televisions and radios. Medsger writes 
       that the burglars removed all of the FBI files and, with 
       the utmost deliberation, released them to various 
       journalists and members of Congress, soon upending the 
       public's perception of the inviolate head of the Bureau 
       and paving the way for the first overhaul of the FBI since
       Hoover became its director in 1924. And we see how the 
       release of the FBI files to the press set the stage for 
       the sensational release three months later, by Daniel 
       Ellsberg, of the top-secret, seven-thousand-page Pentagon 
       study on U.S. decision-making regarding the Vietnam War, 
       which became known as the Pentagon Papers. At the heart of
       the heist--and the book--the contents of the FBI files 
       revealing J. Edgar Hoover's "secret counterintelligence 
       program "COINTELPRO, set up in 1956 to investigate and 
       disrupt dissident political groups in the United States in
       order "to enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles, 
       "to make clear to all Americans that an FBI agent was 
       "behind every mailbox, "a plan that would discredit, 
       destabilize, and demoralize groups, many of them legal 
       civil rights organizations and antiwar groups that Hoover 
       found offensive--as well as black power groups, student 
       activists, antidraft protestors, conscientious objectors. 
       The author, the first reporter to receive the FBI files, 
       began to cover this story during the three years she 
       worked for The Washington Post The Burglary From the 
       Hardcover edition. 
588    Print version record. 
600 10 Hoover, J. Edgar|q(John Edgar),|d1895-1972. 
610 10 United States.|bFederal Bureau of Investigation|xCorrupt 
       practices|xHistory. 
650  0 Intelligence service|xMoral and ethical aspects|zUnited 
       States. 
650  0 Leaks (Disclosure of information)|zUnited States|vCase 
       studies. 
650  0 Whistle blowing|zUnited States|vCase studies. 
650  0 Burglary|zUnited States|vCase studies. 
655  4 Electronic books. 
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