Inside the FBI

J. EDGAR HOOVER’S treatment of right-wingers he didn’t like was basically no different from his treatment of left-wingers he didn’t like. He was just as skeptical, just as scornful, and just as vindictive toward Wm. F. Buckley Jr. as he was toward Murray Kempton.

Buckley’s name first entered the FBI’s indexes when he was just 16 years old, in a November 22, 1941, report concerning his father, “President of the Pantepec Oil Co. of Venezuela, a foreign corporation.” However the 690-page file did not really begin to grow until 1949. In that year, Buckley, as chairman of the Yale Daily News, asked an FBI official to participate in a student debate about the Bureau, a request prompted by some anti-FBI articles that had appeared in the Harvard Crimson. Buckley told the special

J. EDGAR HOOVER’S treatment of right-wingers he didn’t like was basically no different from his treatment of left-wingers he didn’t like. He was just as skeptical, just as scornful, and just as vindictive toward Wm. F. Buckley Jr. as he was toward Murray Kempton.

Buckley’s name first entered the FBI’s indexes when he was just 16 years old, in a November 22, 1941, report concerning his father, “President of the Pantepec Oil Co. of Venezuela, a foreign corporation.” However the 690-page file did not really begin to grow until 1949. In that year, Buckley, as chairman of the Yale Daily News, asked an FBI official to participate in a student debate about the Bureau, a request prompted by some anti-FBI articles that had appeared in the Harvard Crimson. Buckley told the special