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A timely reminder of the danger to civil liberties when the FBI targets dissidents comes in a riveting series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle that describe J. Edgar Hoover's 1960s vendetta against the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and its president, Clark Kerr. Information released under FOIA after a reporter's seventeen-year fight reveals the bureau plotted with the CIA to harass student protesters, gave false background information about Kerr to the White House and mounted a disinformation campaign against the school (see www.sfgate.com).
BUSH AND FREE SPEECH AT OSU
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