Mystery AtlasJ. Edgar Hoover
FBI director from 1924 until his death in 1972, who built the agency into a powerful federal investigative body and personally directed COINTELPRO and the surveillance campaign against Martin Luther King Jr.
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J. Edgar Hoover led Federal Bureau of Investigation.
J. Edgar Hoover was investigated by Church Committee — The Church Committee's 1975-76 hearings examined FBI abuses committed under Hoover's decades-long directorship, including COINTELPRO and the surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.