Technocracy, The FBI and the J. Edgar Hoover Stamp of Approval

Trent Fisher

1999

Several years ago John Taube contacted the FBI, requesting, via the Freedom of Information Act, their files on Technocracy. He got a 40 page packet, which he brought with him to the Annual Labour Day event in Aldergrove, B.C.

The first page contained a letter, dated January 1933, from an FBI agent to the director of the FBI, about Howard Scott and the just-started Technocracy movement. At the bottom of the page was a handwritten note: [image of Hoover's note]

This was the best find in the whole 40 page packet. J. Edgar Hoover, himself, was requesting more information about Howard Scott. I like to call this the ``J. Edgar Hoover Stamp of Approval.''

John Taube was told that there are 12,000 pages on Technocracy in the FBI Washington office and 2,000 pages in the N.Y office.