John Edgar Hoover

From Masters of Deceit, J. Edgar Hoover, 1958

As a Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1919, I was assigned to prepare a legal brief on the newly formed Communist Party and Communist Labor Party. This necessitated an extensive and penetrating study.

The amount of material was voluminous: Party statements, resolutions, platforms, news accounts, manifestoes, the very first documents of American communism. I studied also the writings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin as well as the activities of the Third International.

New York : Henry Holt, 1958, page v.

Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title J. Edgar Hoover speaks concerning communism / compiled by James D. Bales. Publisher Washington, D.C. : The Capitol Hill Press, 1971, c1970. Description xi, 324 p. ; 24 cm. Language English Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Communism -- United States. Format Book Library UCSB 13 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title J. Edgar Hoover on communism. Publisher New York : Random House, [1969] Description xii, 158 p. 22 cm. Language English Subject Communism -- United States. Format Book Library UCR UCLA UCD UCSB CSL UCB UCI UCSC UCSD 14 Details/Locations Author Germany (West). Bundesministerium des Innern. Title Verfassungsschutz : Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis / hrsg. vom Bundesministerium des Innern. Publisher Köln : Heymann, 1966. Description 292 p. ; 23 cm. Language German Subject Rule of law -- Germany (West) Rule of law. Constitutional law. Constitutional law -- Germany (West) Format Book Library SRLF 15 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Statement by J. Edgar Hoover, director, Federal Bureau of Investigation : to the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session : concerning the 18th national convention, Communist Party, U.S.A., June 22-26, 1966. Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1966. Description iii, 12 p. ; 24 cm. Language English Note At head of title: 89th Congress, 2d session. Committee print. Subject Communist Party of the United States of America. Format Book Government document Library UCLA SRLF UCD UCB UCSB UCR 16 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title United States businessman faces the Soviet spy. Publisher Boston, 1964. Description 16 p. ; 31 cm. Language English Note Reprint from the Harvard Business Review. Jan.-Feb. 1964. Subject Espionage -- Soviet Union. Format Book Library UCB 17 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title A study of communism. Publisher New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1962] Description 212 p. illus. 24 cm. Language English Subject Communism. Communism -- United States. Format Book Library UCB GTU UCR UCLA UCD CSL UCI NRLF HAST UCSB UCSD 18 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title The current Communist threat; a statement, by J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. October 1962. Publisher Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962. Description iii, 7 p. 24 cm. Language English Note At head of title: 87th Cong., 2d sess. Committee print. Subject Communism -- United States. Format Book Government document Library UCLA SRLF UCD UCSD UCB UCSB 19 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title The Communist Party line. Prepared for the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session Publisher Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961 Description iii, 6 p. 24 cm Series 87th Congress, 1st session. Senate document no. 59 Language English Subject Communism. Format Book Government document Library UCB NRLF UCLA UCSD 20 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Title Communist target: youth. Communist infiltration and agitation tactics. A report, by J. Edgar Hoover, director, illustrating Communist strategy and tactics in the rioting which occurred during House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings, San Francisco, May 12-14, 1960 Publisher Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1960 Description vii, 18,i p. ports. 24 cm Language English Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title One nation's response to communism. Publisher [n.p.] 1960. Description 14 p. 19 cm. Language English Note "Adapted from an article by Mr. Hoover which was translated into Spanish and distributed in Latin America by the United States Information Agency." Subject Communism -- United States. Communism. Format Book Government document Library SRLF UCB 22 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title The Communist menace : red goals and Christian ideals. Publisher [Washington, 1960?]. Description 8 p. ; 20 cm. Language English Note Each article has a different title: second article, Communist propaganda and the Christian pulpit; third article, Soviet rule or Christian renewal? A series of three articles on the Communist threat to the Christian heritage which first appeared in 'Christianity today' issues of Oct. 10 and 24, and Nov. 7, 1960. Subject Communism and religion. Propaganda, Communist. Format Book Library UCD 23 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Statement by J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, to the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session, concerning the 17th National Convention, Communist Party, U.S.A., December 10-13, 1959. Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1960. Description 10 p. ; 24 cm. Series 86th Congress, 2d session. Senate Document. ;no.80 Language English Subject Hall, Gus. Communist parties. Subversive activities -- United States. Format Book Government document Library UCSB UCSD 24 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Title Communist target: youth. Communist infiltration and agitation tactics. A report, by J. Edgar Hoover, director, illustrating Communist strategy and tactics in the rioting which occurred during House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings, San Francisco, May 12-14, 1960 Publisher Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1960 Description vii, 18,i p. ports. 24 cm Language English Subject Youth -- United States Communism -- United States -- 1917- Format Book Library NRLF UCSD UCLA SRLF UCD UCB UCSC UCSB UCR 25 Details/Locations Author Hoover, John Edgar, 1895-1972. Uniform Title [ Masters of deceit. Chinese] Title Qi shi da shi / J. E. Hufo zhu ; Hu Wei yi. �\�� ��t / J. E. �Ә� �� ; �� �� �. Publisher Xianggang : Zi lian chu ban she, 1959. ���` : ���� �o�Ŏ�, 1959. Description 3, 9, 301 p. Language Chinese Note Translation of Masters of deceit. Subject Communism -- United States -- 1917- Format Book Library SRLF 26 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Masters of deceit; the story of communism in America and how to fight it. Publisher New York : Holt, [1958] Description 374 p. 22 cm. Language English Subject Communism -- United States. Format Book Library UCR UCLA UCI UCB CSL UCD UCSB UCSD GTU 27 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Masters of deceit : the story of communism in America and how to fight it. Publisher New York : Pocket Books, [1958] Description x, 352 p. ; 26 cm. Language English Subject Communism -- United States Format Book Library UCB 28 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Statement by J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, to the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session : an analysis of the sixteenth annual convention of the Communist Party of the United States. Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1957. Description 14 p. ; 24 cm. Series 85th Congress, 1st session. Senate Document. ;no.40 Language English Note Cover title. Subject Hall, Gus. Communist parties. Subversive activities -- United States. Format Book Government document Library SRLF UCSB 29 Details/Locations Title Telenews. [Vol. 9, issue 146--excerpt. F.B.I.'s Hoover comments on kidnap, Washington, D.C.]. Publisher [1956-07-23] Series News from Capitol Hill Language English Note Roll number 1712. Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Shot description: Capitol. Hoover. Photographers. Hoover speaking. Sound (Hearst index card). Subject Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975. News. Format Film Movie Videorecording Library UCLA 30 Details/Locations Title Telenews. [Vol. 8, issue 106--excerpt. President Eisenhower honors J. Edgar Hoover--Washington, D.C.]. Publisher [1955-05-30] Language English Note Roll no. 1193. Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Shot description: Eisenhower and group walk up (long shot). Photographers. Eisenhower pins medal on J. Edgar Hoover (medium closeup). Eisenhower speaks and just behind him are Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (medium closeup). Sound. Written citation (closeup). Photographers. President Eisenhower pan left to Hoover (closeup). Hoover speaks (closeup). Sound. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby just behind J.E. Hoover (medium closeup) (Hearst index card). Subject Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913- Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959. Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905- News. Format Film Movie Videorecording Library UCLA 31 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Services of the FBI. Publisher [S.l.] : Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justics, 1954. Description [12] p. Language English Note Cover title. Format Book Library SRLF 32 Details/Locations Title Telenews. [Vol. 7, issue 81--excerpt. D.A.R. presents award to F.B.I. chief--Washington, D.C.]. Publisher [1954-04-23] Language English Note Roll no. 934. Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Shot description: Speakers' platform (long high shot). Women spectators (medium closeup). Hoover on platform (long shot, medium shot). Audience (long shot). Hoover points out effectiveness of F.B.I. in combatting Communists during the last 30 years. Sound (Hearst index card) Subject News. Format Film Movie Videorecording Library UCLA 33 Details/Locations Title News of the day. [Vol. 22, no. 260--excerpt. Senate probers hear F.B.I. chief on crime crisis--Washington, D.C.]. Publisher [1951-03-26] Language English Note Incorporates the following Hearst production footage: Senate probers hear F.B.I. chief on crime crisis--Washington, D.C., 84723, HNRv22n260 (cuts destroyed). Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Shot description: Meeting (long shot). J. Edgar Hoover (semi). Pan to the committee. Hoover (close-up). Looking at Hoover (back shot). Talk by Hoover. Same (Hearst index card). Subject Newsreels. Shorts. Format Film Movie Videorecording Library UCLA 34 Details/Locations Uniform Title [ Look.] Title The story of the FBI, by the editors of Look, with an introduction by J. Edgar Hoover. Publisher New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., inc., 1947. Description 286p. front.,illus.(incl.ports.) 25cm. Language English Note At head of title: The official picture history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Subject United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Criminal investigation. Format Book Library UCR UCLA SRLF 35 Details/Locations Title Urgent notice : 1. Fighting men and materials are being shifted ... / [signed] Clayton Bissell, hewlett Thebaud, J. Edgar Hoover. Publisher [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945. Description 1 poster ; 67 x 44 cm. Language English Note Black on red. "1945--O-647120." Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Posters. War posters, American. Format Audiovisual Library UCR 36 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title Warning from the FBI : the war against spies and saboteurs demands the aid of every American ... / J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Publisher Washington, D.C. : Office of War Information, 1943 ([Washington?, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office) Description 1 poster ; 71 x 51 cm. Series OWI poster ;no. 74. Language English Note "1943--O-533519." Black on red. Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Posters. World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda -- United States -- Posters. War posters, American. Format Audiovisual Library UCR 37 Details/Locations Title A voice that must be heard : extracts from statements regarding Americans of Japanese ancestry / by President Roosvelt, Hon. Henry L. Stimson, Hon. Joseph C. Grew, J. Edgar Hoover, Paul V. McNutt and others. Publisher [Washington : War Relocation Authority, 1943?] Description [12] p. ; 23 cm. Language English Note Cover title. Subject Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. Format Book Government document Library UCLA 38 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Address delivered by J. Edgar Hoover ... at the graduation exercises, sixteenth session, National Police Academy, Washington, D.C., March 29, 1941. Publisher Washington : Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, [1941] Description 3 leaves ; 27 cm. Language English Note Mimeographed. Subject National security -- United States. Format Book Government document Library SRLF 39 Details/Locations Title Fifth column facts : a handbook of information on Nazi, fascist, and communist activities in the United States. Publisher Kansas City, Mo. : National Headquarters, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., [1940?] Description 39 p. ; 22 x 10 cm. Language English Note Cover title. Cover included in pagination. "Advise the FBI, by J. Edgar Hoover", reprinted from the September, 1940 issue of Foreign Service: p. 4-6. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject Subversive activities -- United States. Fascist propaganda -- United States. Propaganda, Communist -- United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- United States. Nazis -- United States -- Political activity. Fascists -- United States -- Political activity. Communists -- United States -- Political activity. Format Book Library UCR 40 Details/Locations Title Parole fixer / a Paramount picture ; screen play by William R. Lipman and Horace McCoy ; directed by Robert Florey. Publisher United States : Paramount Pictures, Inc., [1940], c1939. Language English Note F.B.I. crime film; feature. "From J. Edgar Hoover's Persons in hiding." Release date supplied from Film daily yearbook, 1941. "Western Electric Mirrophonic recording." Copyright: Paramount Pictures, Inc.; 2Feb40; LP9401. "Classified and passed by the National Board of Review. Approved, MPPDA, certificate no. 4591." Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Masters of deceit; the story of communism in America and how to fight it. Publisher New York : Holt, [1958] Description 374 p. 22 cm. Language English Subject Communism -- United States. Format Book Library UCR UCLA UCI UCB CSL UCD UCSB UCSD GTU 22 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Statement by J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, to the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session : an analysis of the sixteenth annual convention of the Communist Party of the United States. Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1957. Description 14 p. ; 24 cm. Series 85th Congress, 1st session. Senate Document. ;no.40 Language English Note Cover title. Subject Hall, Gus. Communist parties. Subversive activities -- United States. Format Book Government document Library SRLF UCSB 23 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Services of the FBI. Publisher [S.l.] : Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justics, 1954. Description [12] p. Language English Note Cover title. Format Book Library SRLF 24 Details/Locations Uniform Title [ Look.] Title The story of the FBI, by the editors of Look, with an introduction by J. Edgar Hoover. Publisher New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., inc., 1947. Description 286p. front.,illus.(incl.ports.) 25cm. Language English Note At head of title: The official picture history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Subject United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Criminal investigation. Format Book Library UCR UCLA SRLF 25 Details/Locations Title A voice that must be heard : extracts from statements regarding Americans of Japanese ancestry / by President Roosvelt, Hon. Henry L. Stimson, Hon. Joseph C. Grew, J. Edgar Hoover, Paul V. McNutt and others. Publisher [Washington : War Relocation Authority, 1943?] Description [12] p. ; 23 cm. Language English Note Cover title. Subject Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. Format Book Government document Library UCLA 26 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Address delivered by J. Edgar Hoover ... at the graduation exercises, sixteenth session, National Police Academy, Washington, D.C., March 29, 1941. Publisher Washington : Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, [1941] Description 3 leaves ; 27 cm. Language English Note Mimeographed. Subject National security -- United States. Format Book Government document Library SRLF 27 Details/Locations Title Fifth column facts : a handbook of information on Nazi, fascist, and communist activities in the United States. Publisher Kansas City, Mo. : National Headquarters, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., [1940?] Description 39 p. ; 22 x 10 cm. Language English Note Cover title. Cover included in pagination. "Advise the FBI, by J. Edgar Hoover", reprinted from the September, 1940 issue of Foreign Service: p. 4-6. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject Subversive activities -- United States. Fascist propaganda -- United States. Propaganda, Communist -- United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- United States. Nazis -- United States -- Political activity. Fascists -- United States -- Political activity. Communists -- United States -- Political activity. Format Book Library UCR 28 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title Personnel selection and training in the FBI. Publisher [Washington] Federal bureau of investigation, United States Department of justice, 1940. Description 55 p. illus. Language English Format Book Government document Library UCB 29 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title The test of Americanism ... by J. Edgar Hoover ... Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1940. Description 6 L. 27 cm. Language English Subject Spies. Format Book Government document Library SRLF 30 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Progress in crime control / address by Honorable J. Edgar Hoover. Publisher Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1939. Description 11 p. Language English Format Book Library SRLF 31 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Your task as a citizen / address by Honorable J. Edgar Hoover. Publisher Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1939. Description 8 p. Language English Format Book Library SRLF 32 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Men of tomorrow / address of J. Edgar Hoover. Publisher Washington : Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, [1939] Description 3 leaves ; 27 cm. Language English Note Mimeographed. Caption title. " ... at the Boy Scout Day Celebration, Court of Peace, World's Fair, New York, New York, ... June 29, 1939." Subject Boy Scouts of America. Format Book Government document Library SRLF 33 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title Criminal identification and the functions of the Identification division. By John Edgar Hoover, director ... Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice. Publisher [Washington, 1939] Description cover-title, 32 p. incl. illus., facsim., forms. 26 cm. Language English Subject United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Criminals -- Identification. Fingerprints. Format Book Library UCD 34 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Persons in hiding, Publisher Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1938. Description xix p., 2 l., [3]-325 p. front. (port.) 22 cm. Language English Subject Crime -- United States. Criminals -- United States. Format Book Library UCR UCLA UCI UCSB UCD UCB HAST UCSD 35 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title Persons in hiding, Publisher Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1938. Description xix p., 2 l., [3]-325 p. front. (port.) 22 cm. Language English Subject Crime -- United States. Criminals -- United States. Format Book Library UCR UCLA UCI UCSB UCD UCB HAST UCSD 36 Details/Locations Author United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title Some legal aspects of interstate crime, by Hon. J. Edgar Hoover, director, Federal bureau of investigation, United States Department of justice. Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1938. Description 1 p. L., 30 p. ill. (map) 23 cm. Language English Subject Crime -- United States. Format Book Library SRLF 37 Details/Locations Author Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. Title The enemy on our soil : address . . . before the Round Table Forum . . . at New York City, October 4, 1937. Publisher [Washington, D.C. : Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1937] Description 5 l. ; 28 cm. Language English