The San Francisco Chronicle reports that everything you may have feared about the FBI's war on American liberalism in the 1950s and 1960s was true...
Posted by DeLong at June 9, 2002 04:26 PMSF Gate: The Campus Files. A Chronicle Special
- Reputations were destroyed. Information was falsified. And along the way, close ties were forged with an ambitious actor.
- Deemed a hotbed of Soviet spies, Berkeley and the UC system become the focus of a sweeping probe.
- Massive protests at Berkeley would shock the public and make news around the world.
- The transformation of Ronald Reagan into the darling of conservatives, and the subsequent fall of UC President Clark Kerr.