FDR Spied on Leonard Read

by Jacob G. Hornberger
Apr. 17, 2015

Last night I was reading a book entitled The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs by David Unger. My eyes bulged out when I came across the following sentence: "In 1941 Attorney General Francis Biddle, following Roosevelt's new guidelines, approved FBI wiretapping of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce."

Why did that particular sentence grab my attention?

Because I knew that the founder of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), Leonard E. Read, had served as head of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce before he founded FEE in 1946.

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