During World War I, fear that a network of German spies was
operating on American soil justified the rapid growth of federal
intelligence agencies. When that threat proved illusory, these
agencies, staffed heavily by corporate managers and anti-union
private detectives, targeted antiwar and radical labor groups,
particularly the Socialist party and the Industrial Workers of the
World.
"Seeing Reds," based largely on case files from the Bureau of
Investigation, Military Intelligence Division, and Office of Naval
Intelligence, describes this formative period of federal domestic
spying in the Pittsburgh region. McCormick traces the activities of
L. M. Wendell, a Bureau of Investigation "special employee" who
infiltrated the IWW's Pittsburgh recruiting branch and the inner
circle of anarchist agitator and lawyer Jacob Margolis. Wendell and
other Pittsbugh based agents spied on radical organizations from
Erie, Pennsylvania, to Camp Lee, Virginia, intervened in the steel
and coal strikes of 1919, and carried out the Palmer raids aimed at
mass deportation of members of the Union of Russian Workers and the
New Communist Party.
McCormick's detailed history uses extensive research to add to
our understanding of the security state, cold war ideology, labor
and immigration history, and the rise of the authoritarian American
Left, as well as the career paths of figures as diverse as J. Edgar
Hoover and William Z. Foster.
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