J. Edgar Hoover, 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 through 1972, photogr...
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
District of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
January 15, 1936
Via air mail.
Honorable John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Hoover:
For approximately ten years there has been in existence in Puerto Rico a political group known as the Nationalist Party which aims to secure the separation of the Island from the United States in order that it may become a republic. During approximately the last seven years the leader of that Party has been one Pedro Albizu Campos, who is virtually dictator of all its policies and activities.
In recent years Albizu and other members of his Party have caused to be published in the local press numerous articles insulting the United States and its institutions, and endeavoring to incite Puerto Ricans against the United States.
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This timespace is inspired by the 7th chapter of the book How to Hide an Empire, by Daniel Immerwahr. It tells the life of Puerto Rican nationalist Pedro Albizu Campos in the context of other nationalist movements and U.S. interventions in Latin America.
