Speaker 1: Ah nineteen seventy one. It was a simpler time, a
Speaker 1: groovy time. Soul train had just started chugging along. Everyone
Speaker 1: had a lava lamp. For some reason, weebels started to wobble,
Speaker 1: but as we all know, they don't fall down.
Speaker 2: It's really something. But it wasn't all weebels and bell bottoms.
Speaker 2: There was also the Vietnam War and a growing nationwide
Speaker 2: movement protesting it.
Speaker 3: Today across the country, people were speaking up.
Speaker 2: And the more they did, we know they we.
Speaker 3: Know they were looking for us, we know they had them.
Speaker 2: The more they learned about the hidden underbelly of the
Speaker 2: most powerful law enforcement agency in the land. This can't
Speaker 2: be true.
Speaker 3: This is America.
Speaker 2: One group sent out to find the truth, even if
Speaker 2: it meant doing the unthinkable.
Speaker 4: Would you dare break into an FBI office?
Speaker 3: I'm Ed Helms, host of Snaffoo season two, medburg the
Speaker 3: story of a daring heist that exposed Jaedgar Hoover's.
Speaker 2: Epic FBI snaffo. The burglars were amateurs.
Speaker 4: I remember thinking, I'm not breathing.
Speaker 2: But the break in was flawless.
Speaker 3: It's always puzzled me why criminals don't learn lock picking
Speaker 3: because it's really not hard.
Speaker 2: And what they uncovered, oh.
Speaker 4: It was well horrifying. It was horrifying.
Speaker 2: Was never meant to see the light of day.
Speaker 4: Every document was just telling a story about FBI power
Speaker 4: that was unknown to anyone outside the FBI.
Speaker 2: Here the incredible true story that almost got buried.
Speaker 4: I was told that it might not be published the
Speaker 4: next day, or might not be published ever.
Speaker 2: As told by the ordinary citizens who took extraordinary measures,
Speaker 2: getting caught was virtually inevitable to expose j Edgar Hoover's
Speaker 2: secret FBI.
Speaker 1: Many of the techniques were clearly illegal, but justified in
Speaker 1: the interest of national security.
Speaker 4: If it meant some risks that were involved, well that's
Speaker 4: what citizens sometimes have to do.
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