thefbi -- corruption in politics and big business, all addressing organization at the turn-of-the-century as well as national security concerns, particularly with regard to anarchism. as well as threats of war times. subversion and espionage that we talk about the other week when we talk about free speech. the fbi in 1939 makes its first effort groups such as anti-enlistment and -- they will spy on the american civil liberties union, the evangelical american -- of churches, the nationwide labor federation, the naacp, the new orleans women's center, the american friends service committee, the quaker social justice organization, the women's peace movement led by etc.adams, pete seeger, sometimes these people and organizations are investigated for decades. these are not violent revolutionary threats. and perhaps even the particular form of government we have, we dothese are not so through specc means. as we noted on our speech on free speech, political spying will begin right around 1908 and will run until about 1924 and then will stop for about a decade. the impetus to stop it is the first