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may find disturbing.

Hello and welcome to Legacy and the fourth and final episode in our series on Jay Edgar Hoover.

It's now the early 1970s, and a daring burglary of historic proportions

has led to a break-in at an FBI office revealing the Cointelpro project

and the vast, unwieldy extent of domestic surveillance on innocent citizens to the world.

And in America, there is public outcry.

Jay Edgar Hoover has been in his job for almost half a century.

As director of the FBI, he's had almost unlimited powers and been indulged by president after president.

He's built a public image that means he's not only respected, but admired and even loved.

But now, the calls for him to resign are getting louder.

From Wondery and Goalhanger, I'm Afwa Hirsch.

And I'm Peter Frankenpurn.

And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived.

And asks if they have the reputation they deserve.

This is Hoover, Episode 4. The Deep State lives on. Peter, the cat's out the bag.

Surely Hoover has to resign.

The public now knows the extent of his illegal

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