The Responsibilities Program was the code name for a

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...

program active from 1951 to 1955. Under this program the FBI would give reports about possible

subversive Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms. Sub ...

s to state governors and civic leaders.

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{{US-gov-stub Federal Bureau of Investigation operations McCarthyism 1950s in the United States