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Roosevelt Plans Anti-spy Unit

January 5, 1940
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An emergency unit of 250 “G-men” will be mobilized in 1940 to combat foreign espionage agents and subversive activities, the President’s budget message revealed today. Edward Tamm,. longtime assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will head the new unit.

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