Michael from Muckrock sez, “Few American officials could even come close to the legendary paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover, but that didn’t stop the notorious FBI chief from striking up a close friendship with Samuel Dickstein, House Committee on Un-American Activities founder, Supreme Court Justice — and suspected Russian spy.”
The eighty-two page collection of documents, spanning the years between 1930 and 1954, when Dickstein died, consists largely of type-written letters between Dickstein and J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s first director, with whom Dickstein played a twenty-four year long game of phone tag.
FBI files on Congressman Dickstein show close relationship between Hoover and the alleged spy