DBWI-JE Hoover doesn't die in 1950

The Communist Party USA doesn't become the main civil rights organisation. Maybe some obscure Chrisitan minister or something rises to lead the movement.
 
The Communist Party USA doesn't become the main civil rights organisation. Maybe some obscure Chrisitan minister or something rises to lead the movement.
Ironically, the presence of the CPUSA in the Civil Rights movement actually led some Republicans to push harder for civil rights. They argued that expanding the rights of African-Americans was necessary to keep them from falling under the sway of Communism. And besides, only a small number of blacks actively allied with the Commies. The rest, while grateful for the help, were also rather suspicious.
 

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Hmm, good question. I guess, given how forceful a personality he has, the FBI gets way more funding and prestige than it did IOTL. Right now it has what, maybe two hundred employees all told? And that includes janitors and stenographers.
 
Hoover kept an enormous amount of files on politicians which is one reason the FBI had the funding it received up until his death.

If he had lived longer the FBI certainly wouldn't be the almost superfluous organization it is compared to the CIA and NSA... It's hard to tell what the effect would be with a strong police agency which works almost exclusively internally over the hybrid internal / external nature of the NSA and CIA as well as their dual intelligence and police nature... I mean would the CIA have been able to take out Castro in 59 without the funding and contacts it had? Would the 2001 Al Queida 'Plane Plot' have worked if the information in the 20 terrorists was spread out over several agencies rather than centralized in the NSA?

Of course OTOH we had a disturbing amount of 'disappearances' and 'retirement' during the 60's among the CPUSA's leadership, the 'Watergate' scandal that almost brought down Nixon if it wasn't for the 'gas main' explosion that destroyed the White House recording archives what happened to poor Jane Fonda was just completely uncalled for! :mad:
 
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