G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

by Beverly Gage

A second drawing, titled “Ku-Kluxers Koloring Komics,” showed a Klansman in full masked-and-robed regalia declaring to readers, “I am an informant. Color me Fed!” Slated for a “disruptive, anonymous mailing,” the cartoons reflected a Bureau assumption that the macho, posturing Klan would be especially “sensitive to ridicule.” The Bureau also assumed that Klansmen would not—indeed, could not—read anything more complicated than a simple letter or cartoon.

Lol KKK were (and still are) dumb af