By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Former President Ronald Reagan exploited his relationship with the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover as an informant to get the agency to provide information on his children Michael and Maureen and to obtain information unavailable to the public, LA Observer reports.
Citing Seth Rosenfeld’s new book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power,” the Observer reports that Reagan was a close friend of J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime FBI director.
Reagan also reported secretly to the FBI about suspected Communists, even when evidence was scant, according to the Observer.
While president of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s and ’50s, Reagan cooperated with the FBI.
According to the book, Reagan asked the FBI to conduct investigations of family members when he became suspicious of people around them.
