The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Letter from John Edgar Hoover to All Law Enforcement Officials
Abstract
In this letter, President Hoover addresses all F.B.I. law enforcement officials. He discusses America's opposition to communism and describes it as an "insidious menace." However, Hoover warns that "attributing every adversity to communism" is ineffective and senseless. Instead he suggests that in order to defeat communism, it must be thoroughly studied and analyzed.