Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Field Office Case Files. Part D: Classification 3. Overthrow or Destruction of the Government.

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Disposition Authorities for Individual Classifications for Field Office Case Files. Part D: Classification 3. Overthrow or Destruction of the Government.

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This classification was established in 1941 to cover investigations under authority of the Hatch Act of 1939 and the Smith Act of 1940. These acts made it illegal to advocate, abet, advise, or teach the desirability of overthrowing or destroying the Government of the United States or political subdivisions therein by force or violence; to print, publish, issue, or distribute written or printed matter advocating such actions; and to organize a group advocating such actions. In practice4 few cases were ever investigated under this classification. Routinely the FBI handles investigations in this area under 100-Subversive Matters, 105-Foreign Counterintelligence, and 176-Antiriot Laws. The last Headquarters case in the classification was opened in 1969.

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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, ...