j. edgar hoover is one of the good guys. [laughter] i just want to say thank you to the festival for having me. murder, fraud and the last try d with harper lee. i grew up loving mockingbird like a lot ofab you did and i'd always been interested in harper lee's wife and i went down to watch the watchmen the surprising announcement and when i was reporting on that i learned about the other but she tried to write and it is a true crime project so that is the story of the book and the last is harper lee's life into what made her a writer and interested in the case and ultimately made it hard for her to write her own book about it. >> correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think there's any central character in any of yout books but still living. did anybody encounter a personal observation or talk to any of these characters? did you ever talk to harper lee at all? >> for those of you that have read it, i don't want to get bogged down in the plot of the story but the murder in my book was gunned down by a vigilante and that vigila

j. edgar hoover and that it's a very easily leaches over into a way to blackmail and and. stroy in the lives of dissidents that's what cohen tell pro was right. and these were any war activists peace activists civil rights act was part of their king himself was a victim of this but that we raise this to a whole new level yet at the time that was the same 3 agencies n.s.a. f.b.i. and cia n.s.a. had a program called minaret that parallel the cointelpro and chaos was a parallel at cia put the same 3 agencies today doing the same thing but on a much larger more more comprehensive scale and one of the things that we know you go back and look at the 154 arbenz cuckoo is that they often will because some intelligence services are separated between operations and intelligence were not so this intelligence becomes actionable in terms of carrying out dirty tricks. i mean it gives you leverage moments once you know everybody and what they're doing what they're thinking what they're planning i mean you have the opportunity to manipulate them any way you want causing certain things to

j. edgar hoover stated that manio associated with certain members of the communist troop in mexico he whove sympathies with the soviet union. >> they were not an active group. they were an association of people who shared sympathies with communism. they weren't very organized. the fbi report seemed particularly interested in the time she spent with a notable member of that circle. >> he had been disinherited from the vanderbilt fortune. >> he had been associated where a wide number of communists and left-leaning causes throughout his time in america and mexico. >> as the memo continued it seemed less concerned about the political aspects and more about the romantic as it became clear that a relationship was developing between field and monroe. one of the most of intriguing aspect of the report may be the source. eunice' churchill. it led many to believe she was using an alias. >> she has leftist leaning because of her marriage to arthur miller. >> this is a political climate in the 1960s where you could damage someone's reputation or even their life. >> for some inside the fbi marilyn's a

two years, he had been active in the branch in pittsburgh, periodically slipping away to meet j edgar hoover in washington and new york and brief him. some of what the pittsburgh wobblies were accused of doing was actually instigated by him. aspect of these very repressive years, 1917 to 1920, not only did the justice department greatly increase in progressive activists of all sorts, but so did the american military. the key figure here was a man na med lieutenant colonel ralph h. van dean. he started with intelligence war, 1899e philippine to 1902, an extremely brutal conflict where torture was routine by the u.s. army who wantedipinos their country to be independent. intelligencemy vasttions and set up a operation on filipino independence advocates and mobilized u.s. army officers across the island to feed him information. in thee had other posts military, but was stationed in washington when the united states entered the first world war, and he immediately went to the secretary and asked to set up an army intelligence operation. but this was not army intelligence to find out what the germ

the untouchables, before j edgar hoover, is a household name, before people know what g men are in many cases, the untouchables are providing a new understanding of what it can do but we have difficulty of having to put together a lot of that, a lot of the work they were doing from the outside from newspaper articles, recollections that had been written 25 years after the fact, educated guesswork because there wasn't a great base of documents unfortunately and two months after the hardcover of our book came out a copy of the complete case summary case report of the untouchables compiled which one of nest's men kept illegally turned up. and so the first part is this is the document with all the answers was this would have been my life easier had it turned up two years ago. did we get anything wrong? we looked in and discovered a lot of our suppositions and speculation turned out to be warranted. what we did in june was put some excerpts from it in there so you could see what they were doing but one of the tasks we hoped the book would achieve was in showing you where nests in the untouch

j. edgar hoover and speaking of j. edgar many critics are pointing out but apparently the f.b.i.'s new app while helping train like an agent also needs to access your location photos media files and storage gibbs who doesn't want the pads roaming around in your private in from . i guess they want more of a chase when big brother comes to you to catch you for your thought crimes all right everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand to the brand new portable t.v. app available on smartphones through google play on the apple app store by searching portable t.v. or stream us to your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. app on apple t.v. and online that once again portable t.v. this wonderful wonderful app will be available on board the buyers those coming in the very future coming up immigration attorney allergan your brings us the latest on how i used the tension camps have been affected by the kobe had 19 and stay tuned to watch the ball. in london julian assange is standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u.s. to face esp

j. edgar hoover stated that manio associated with certain members of the communist troop in mexico he whohave sympathies with the soviet union. >> they were not an active group. they were an association of people who shared sympathies with communism. they weren't very organized. the fbi report seemed particularly interested in the time she spent with a notable member of that circle. >> he had been disinherited from the vanderbilt fortune. >> he had been associated where a wide number of communists and left-leaning causes throughout his time in america and mexico. >> as the memo continued it seemed less concerned about the political aspects and more about the romantic as it became clear that a relationship was developing between field and monroe. one of the most of intriguing aspect of the report may be the source. eunice' churchill. it led many to believe she was using an alias. >> she has leftist leaning because of her marriage to arthur miller. >> this is a political climate in the 1960s where you could damage someone's reputation or even their life. >> for some inside the fbi marilyn's

you see j edgar hoover writing in popular magazines about stamping out the spies. by the time we go to war, you will see posters like this. and we were fascinated to find, reported in the washington post, that the fbi was getting 3000 tips a day by 1940 about spies. this was popular culture, but if deeply influences the state as well. this man is the head of the visa division for the state department. he is in charge of overseeing all the issuance of visas. there is no doubt there is a deep culture of anti-semitism. if you read his diary, you see deeply anti-semitic sentiment about wanting to keep jews out. the secretary of state sends this construction to consulates in 1940, saying they have to be examined with more extreme care. if you have any a doubt -- any doubt about the applicant, keep them out. the state department institutes a procedure that effectively takes a door that is slightly open to refugees and slams it shut. they use these national concern -- national security concerns about spies. they argue we can't be letting refugees, and if there is any doub

j. edgar hoover, the head of the fbi, writing in popular magazines like the american magazine here abouttamping out the spies. by the time we go to war, you will see posters like this. the warning from the fbi about spies and saboteurs. all over the united states. and we were fascinated to find, reported in "the washington post," that the fbi was getting 3000 tips a day by 1940 about spies. this influences american popular culture, but it deeply influences the state department as well. and this man, breckenridge long, is the head of the visa division for the state department. he is in charge of overseeing all the issuance of visas. there is no doubt there is a deep culture of anti-semitism in the u.s. state department in the 1940's. long himself, if you read his diary, you see deeply anti-semitic sentiment about wanting to keep jews out. publicly what the state department is effectively doing is citing this national security concern. to keep refugees out. the secretary of state sends this instruction to all the consulates in 1940, saying that every application for an immigration visa has

two weeks away from becoming president and the fbi director comes in and there's no way that j edgar hoover is not far behind and says by the way, if we had the secret dossier about you being with prostitutes in moscow three years earlier, how would you feel. >> how should comey have handled it. [laughter] >> not that way. >> trump has legitimate beef in my view and i say so in the book. being the prisoner of too much history in writing about too much president in the case of bill clinton when he came into office in 1993 and his white house counsel in the first of six, that is right but the first and as you imagine, clinton had some baggage to and there was all kinds of things that the fbi got about clinton's extracurricular activities which were abundant so they sent all this to clinton in the senate to the white house counsel, and he looked at it and said put in the burn bags and he said okay, let's see what happens, let's see how these things -- i'm not sure the burn bag -- i wish you would've called me. [laughter] he did not but the idea of the fbi director getting in the face of somebo

weeks away from becoming president and the fbi director comes in and there is no way the ghost of j edgar hoover is not far behind. by the way to have that secret dossier to be with prostitutes in moscow three years earlier how would you feel? >> how should have comey handled it? [laughter] not that way. and trump has legitimate beef and to be the prisoner of too much history and in the case of bill clinton when he came in 1993, his white house counsel that said yes it is the first but clinton had some baggage to and there were all kinds of things the fbi god about clinton extracurricular activities instead of with clinton it was a nussbaum house counsel and to per on - - put it in the burn bag. i wish you called me so the idea of the fbi director getting in the face of somebody like trump and after this briefing to say the could never find out about this it was two days later she did. >> and you draw the conclusion the administration is in a very dangerous spot. is that the furthest you have ever gone and why did you go so far? evelyn duffy who is my assistant. are you here? raise your hand. st

j. edgar hoover. hoover came here in 1936. flee in from cleveland. 4:00 in the morning, arrived at this location. at that time there would have been a row of apartment buildings behind me. hoover kicked the door down and arrested america's most wanted criminal. campbell by the way was wanted. he was part of a gang. they had kidnaps brewer's son in st. paul, minnesota and ransomed him for $200,000. hoover promised he was going to get every single person involved in that crime. harry campbell was the last person. after the arrest, it came out that the sheriff had been seen drinking with campbell on the weekends at the brewy which was locateded down the street here at this corner. toledo was known as a wide-open town. hoor kind of pointed out that he didn't trust everybody when its -- my the same was broader than your chief's protest. hoover wanted nothing to happen. toledo was coming out of period when they had seen the gangs come down. ou had the skend killings. jack kennedy was a bootlegger who was murdered by the lica volis.