Ah, 1971! It was a simpler time, a groovy time.

Soul Train had just started chugging along.

Everyone had a lava lamp for some reason.

Weebl started to wobble, but as we all know, they don't fall down.

It's really something.

But it wasn't all weebles and bell bottoms.

There was also the Vietnam War and a growing nationwide movement protesting it.

Look behind you!

See the thousands of parties today.

Across the country, people were speaking up up and the more they did

We know they have our pictures we know they're looking for us we know they want them

The more they learned about the hidden underbelly of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the

land.

One group sent out to find the truth, even if it meant doing the unthinkable.

Would you dare break into an FBI office?

I'm Ed Helms, host of Snafu, season two, Medburg, the story of a daring

heist that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's epic FBI Snafu. The Burglars were amateurs. I remember thinking I'm not breathing. But the break-in was

flawless. It's always puzzled me why criminals don't learn lockpicking because it's really not hard and what they uncovered

Oh, it was all horrifying was horrifying was never meant to see the light of day

Every document was telling a story about FBI power

that was unknown to anyone outside the FBI.

Here the incredible true story that almost got buried.

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