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INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE
RIGHTS OF AMERICANS
BOOK II
P.27
President Roosevelt used the term "subversive activities" in a secret
directive to Attorney General Robert Jackson on wiretapping in 1940.
Referring to activities of other nations engaged in "propaganda of so-called 'FIFTH COLUMNS'" and "preparation for sabotage," he directed
the Attorney General to authorize wiretaps "of persons suspected of
subversive activities amainst the Government of the United States,
includin!T susnected snies." The President instructed that such wire0
taps be limited "insofar as possible" to aliens.2 Neither the President
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