Just arrived from the FBI: here's the Bureau's file on Rose Wilder Lane--daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder and author of the libertarian classic The Discovery of Freedom--who was famously investigated by the Bureau after she sent a postcard to a newspaper columnist in which she protested against Social Security. The incident became something of a legend in libertarian history, because Lane called the newspapers, contacted the ACLU, and later published a pamphlet about the incident called "What is This--The Gestapo?" Apparently it made something of a headache for J. Edgard Hoover, who claimed that the investigation was not conducted in a manner befitting the organization. The local field office also seems to have thought it was ridiculous that they actually sent a state police officer to confront Lane about her postcard. Note also Lane's unequivocal statement that she did not, in fact, invite the police officer in for cookies (a detail included in some versions of the story).
Note, however, that the Bureau continued to surveil Lane. A full year after the postcard incident, the New Haven field office contacted Hoover about an "extremely seditious" speech she gave to the local Lion's Club, a matter Hoover then passed on to future U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark.
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