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The Hiss case played to the benefit of J. Edgar Hoover, as well, proving once again the utility of extralegal back channels to smite the foe when legal avenues were closed. Even the torturously slow process that led to Hiss’s fall played to the director’s advantage; the longer such cases stayed in the public eye, the more dire the perception of the communist threat, and the more secure the position of Hoover and the FBI as frontline defenders against that threat. But merely retaining power had never been enough for Hoover. It had always been about amassing more, and with the sudden rise of
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