My eyes bulged out when I came across the following sentence: "In 1941 Attorney General Francis Biddle, following Roosevelt's new guidelines, approved FBI wiretapping of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce."

Why did that particular sentence grab my attention?

Because I knew that the founder of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), Leonard E. Read, had served as head of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce before he founded FEE in 1946.

I did a bit of research and found that Read took the helm of the L.A. Chamber in 1939 and stayed for five years.

That means that it's a virtual certainty that at least some of those wiretaps were on Read's telephone conversations.

Why would FDR and his goons want to spy on the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce?