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:Please feel free to improve this entry with your own edits!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 16:08, 13 April 2020 (EDT)
:Please feel free to improve this entry with your own edits!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 16:08, 13 April 2020 (EDT)
:: A detailed analysis of Cleon Skousen's career is available at: https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/skousen. This analysis is based upon the 1928 pages of FBI files on Skousen as well as other related material appearing in FBI files.
:: It is significant to point out that former FBI Agents were usually added to the FBI's mailing list (aka Special Correspondents List). However, Associate Director Clyde Tolson asked subordinates to find out if Skousen was on that list. When the answer came back as "YES", Tolson ordered Skousen removed and Director Hoover approved that action. The reason was because the Bureau was hostile toward anybody who used their FBI employment to facilitate the spread of false information.
:: When Skousen associated himself with Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and, especially, the John Birch Society - the Bureau decided to remove Skousen from its mailing lists.
:: Furthermore, the FBI asked the National Americanism Commission of the American Legion to help the FBI neutralize the activities of organizations which the FBI considered examples of "''right wing extremism''" -- such as the John Birch Society. The Legion did agree to help the FBI by promoting authors and publications which the FBI thought accurately educated the American public. One example was Dr. Harry Overstreet's 1958 book, ''''What You Must Know About Communism''''. It turned out that the Bureau's Chief Inspector (their expert on the communist movement) assisted Overstreet with writing that book. Robert Welch and the John Birch Society described it as "''pro-Communist doubletalk''" but J. Edgar Hoover praised Overstreet and his book and even recommended that Justice Dept employees read it! [[User:Ernie1241|Ernie1241]] ([[User talk:Ernie1241|talk]]) 13:37, 15 April 2020 (EDT)ernie1241[[User:Ernie1241|Ernie1241]] ([[User talk:Ernie1241|talk]]) 13:37, 15 April 2020 (EDT)