"Hoover’s plan called for 'the permanent detention' of the roughly 12,000 suspects at military bases as well as in federal prisons. The F.B.I., he said, had found that the arrests it proposed in New York and California would cause the prisons there to overflow.
"So the bureau had arranged for 'detention in military facilities of the individuals apprehended' in those states, he wrote."
Tim Weiner in The New York Times reports the declassification of J. Edgar Hoover's 1950 proposal to imprison thousands of Americans for suspected disloyalty.
And Slate reprints the Hoover memo.
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