Ah nineteen seventy one. It was a simpler time, a groovy time. Soul train had just started chugging along. Everyone had a lava lamp. For some reason, weebels started to wobble, but as we all know, they don't fall down.
It's really something. But it wasn't all weebels and bell bottoms. There was also the Vietnam War and a growing nationwide movement protesting it.
Today across the country, people were speaking up.
And the more they did, we know they we.
Know they were looking for us, we know they had them.
The more they learned about the hidden underbelly of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the land. This can't be true.
This is America.
One group sent out to find the truth, even if it meant doing the unthinkable.
Would you dare break into an FBI office?
I'm Ed Helms, host of Snaffoo season two, medburg the story of a daring heist that exposed Jaedgar Hoover's.
Epic FBI snaffo. The burglars were amateurs.
I remember thinking, I'm not breathing.
But the break in was flawless.
It's always puzzled me why criminals don't learn lock picking because it's really not hard.
And what they uncovered, oh.
It was well horrifying. It was horrifying.
Was never meant to see the light of day.
Every document was just telling a story about FBI power that was unknown to anyone outside the FBI.
Here the incredible true story that almost got buried.
I was told that it might not be published the next day, or might not be published ever.
As told by the ordinary citizens who took extraordinary measures, getting caught was virtually inevitable to expose j Edgar Hoover's secret FBI.
Many of the techniques were clearly illegal, but justified in the interest of national security.
If it meant some risks that were involved, well that's what citizens sometimes have to do.
Follow Snafoo and listen to season two starting July tenth, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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