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right, starting from 20 hits. Matters 21 29 28. Smart, keep. I'm honored to have this mindset, the most respected and able public servants that the United States government has ever had. That's a strong statement, but I know that it's a true statement. I speak as a director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr J.

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Edgar Hoover. Mr. Hoover, I'd like to start off by asking you on this program about communism. We don't We read about it as a foreign threat today, but we don't read very much about communism as a threat to our internal security anymore. What is your view on the seriousness of the Communist situation here at home?

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Senator, I think it's the most critical problem we have to face up to it on our internal security. The Communist Party of the United States is an arm of the international conspiracy against freedom and against God. Their national leaders are more pro Soviet today than they have ever been.

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And at the meeting held in New York recently of the National Committee of the Communist Party, three members high officials of that party who had just returned from Moscow reported from the upon their session at Moscow with the International Communist Movement, which shows a definite tie in to the international conspiracy.

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Are they endeavoring to increase their membership now, more so than they had been in recent past? They have now renewed their drive for increased membership, that dropping off materially. But I think that was due to the fact they had screened out those about whom they had any doubt as to their fanaticism and dedication to communism.

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The drive today is to form a new youth and also to infiltrate into our basic industries like steel, shipping, automobiles and transportation. Their aim is to cause eat into our economic life and our freedom. Do you feel that they have now decided to come from out from underground?

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Or are they still operating? Essentially underground? They have come more from the underground. They still retain an organization underground. But they have now coming out more open and trying to infiltrate into labor organizations and other areas where their influence can be felt by the pressure of the communist movement.

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Mr. Hoover, you've had a lot of experience in combating the Communist, and of course you've been the victim of much of their Marini. But how is the best way that we can convince young people the errors of communism? How can we best combat communism? I think the best way to combat it is to have our people know what communism is.

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There's a great confusion as to what it's real purposes are. We read in the papers some of the statements made by Chris, Jeff and his associates, uh, feeding for peaceful coexistence. What that means is surrendered to comment. They also talk about the necessity of our foreign policy being more flexible.

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I think our people should recognize the fact that you can be flexible with principles, and our principal of our foreign policy was based upon morality. I think the young people of the country should have that brought to their attention in the school and in the colleges of the country so they can be informed when they go out and become Buddhas in the next generation.

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Now we've talked a little bit about communism, primarily your organization, combat crime, as I understand it, and that brings about law enforcement. Uh, what is the criminal situation today in our country? Are you able to is decreasing or increasing. The amount of crime is increasing. It is jumped materially during the last four or five years, and it's been a marked increase in juvenile delinquency recently.

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In order to combat the problem of the hoodlums and racketeering and the criminal scum, the bureau initiated a series of conferences in the United States with local law enforcement officer because we have always felt that law enforcement is really a local problem. We've held about 6160 of those conferences in your state of Florida.

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We had stubborn Miami in West Palm Beach, Tallahassee, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville and those conferences throughout the entire country were very enthusiastically received and has brought about a concerted effort against the real menace of the underworld. Mr. Hoover, what do you think is the cause of this increase in juvenile delinquency?

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I think that's due to the breakdown of the home. Primarily you can't place it upon any one specific reason. But I think there's been a laxity grew up in the home as to discipline, and I think there's a need for a return to discipline in the home and for responsibility from the part of Paris.

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Well, Mr Hoover. Thank you very, very much for those assertions. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for looking in. I hope you're looking again at the same time next week. Yeah.