I think this was more cointelpro rather than HUAC, but those are similar in a sense. The reason that French New Wave star Jean Seberg was targeted by Edgar Hoover initially was that she donated like $500 to civil rights orgs. They discovered later she also donated to the black panthers, but like who cares, you don't have to be like a soviet agent to support them, and you only found that out after stalking a private citizen for donating to mainstream civil rights places. You also know that the reason she was on their radar at all is that they probably considered French New Wave to be secretly soviet or some shit.
Hoover was such a fucking monster. Everyone goes on about the Stasi like we didn't have our own corrupt and totally unaccountable networks of spies and assassins at home.
I think this was more cointelpro rather than HUAC, but those are similar in a sense. The reason that French New Wave star Jean Seberg was targeted by Edgar Hoover initially was that she donated like $500 to civil rights orgs. They discovered later she also donated to the black panthers, but like who cares, you don't have to be like a soviet agent to support them, and you only found that out after stalking a private citizen for donating to mainstream civil rights places. You also know that the reason she was on their radar at all is that they probably considered French New Wave to be secretly soviet or some shit.
I don't think the details matter, the point is that we need a never ending red scarce to protect our American way of false scarcity and poverty.
Hoover was such a fucking monster. Everyone goes on about the Stasi like we didn't have our own corrupt and totally unaccountable networks of spies and assassins at home.