FBI Files Compiled About George McGovern Released

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Beyond the potentially career-ending revelation, the files compile the rawness of a public feud between Hoover and McGovern. Hoover, the most powerful lawman and a staunch anti-communist, clashed repeatedly with McGovern, who felt that Hoover was turning the Unites States into a police state.
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FBI agents across the country were dispatched to find information about McGovern and his immediate family.
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J. Edgar Hoover, Founding Director of the FBI

On Dec. 22, the FBI forwarded its report to the Kennedy administration. It referenced an incident in which McGovern had "reportedly" fathered what the bureau termed an "illegitimate child." But a separate memo, one that stayed within the FBI, was more definitive about McGovern's paternity.
It was information that, more than a decade later, would eventually find its way into the hands of McGovern's political enemies.
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History has shown that Hoover routinely released information on political enemies.
"The bureau didn't hesitate to disseminate," Theoharis said.
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McGovern's concern that Hoover wielded power to silence political enemies proved to be true, Weil said.
McGovern, it turned out, was one of the last enemies Hoover tried to silence.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/26/fbi-mined-secrets-mcgoverns-past/30689729/

FBI mined secrets from George McGovern's past
Jonathan Ellis jonellis (at) argusleader.com

4:26 p.m. EDT July 26, 2015
Just-released files prove J. Edgar Hoover investigated George McGovern.