Membership Directory: Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. April, 1956

New York: Society of Former Special Agents, 1956. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 129,(2)pp. Covers slightly creased; small loss at head of spine; Very Good.

Alphabetical directory of some 3,500 retired FBI agents, including a list of national chapters and their officers. This copy with mailing label addressed to William W. Blatchford, Jr., of New Rochelle, listed as a Charter Member. Blatchford worked in the New York office from 1917-1919 and was the coordinator of the notorious 1918 "Slacker Raid" in New York City, a combined effort of the FBI and the American Protective League (APL), in which an estimated 20,000 suspected "draft dodgers," (truncated) most of them socialists, pacifists, and students, were arrested and conscripted for service in the First World War. The raids were so brazenly unconstitutional that even Woodrow Wilson questioned their legitimacy. (Inventory #: 83657)