Lee Roberts Pennington papers 1918-1974

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Lee Roberts Pennington papers 1918-1974

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Correspondence, speeches, reports, memoranda, serial issues, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to communism in the United States, subversive activities in the United States, and investigative activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and private organizations.

13 manuscript boxes; (5.2 linear feet)

eng,

Hoover Institution Archives

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Hoover Institution Archives

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Pennington, Lee Roberts, 1894-1974

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Lee Roberts Pennington, Jr., was born November 19, 1894, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He later moved to Havre de Grace with his family. He attended the Maryland State Agricultural College, where he was known as "Duck" by the other students, as a cadet from 1911-1915, earning a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. While at MAC, he witnessed the major campus fire of 1912, participating in firefighting efforts and later documenting the damage. He joined the U.S. Army in 1917 and serve...

American Legion. National Americanism Commission.

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...

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