Marc Fennell
speaker
1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But that is not all.
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The company is being overcharged by engineers, it's plagued by mismanagement.
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It's also being watched very closely by some important people in high places.
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Specifically a man who one day would be the President of the United States, but at this time was just the director of something called the Bureau of Investigation, which these days is known as the FBI.
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The man.
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Was J Edgar.
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So Hoover initially took an interest in Garvey because Garvey was classified as what they called then an undesirable alien.
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So in the years after the First World War, authorities were incredibly paranoid about communist revolution, and immigrants were, unsurprisingly, viewed with deep suspicion.
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But even once the investigators concluded that Garvey was definitely not a communist,
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They didn't stop watching him.
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Instead, they shifted their focus to something called, quote, Negro radicalism.
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Hoover described Garvey as, and again I'm gonna quote here, a notorious Negro agitator.
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And they even recruited the Bureau's first black agent to infiltrate Garvey's movement and report back.
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no, enough is enough.
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Thing is, there's also another reason that Hoover keeps an eye on Garvey.
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And that's money.
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All of the money tied up with the Black Star line.
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You know, the company lost approximately $1.25 million.
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And so the question was asked, is this really just poor management?
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Or was it losing the money deliberately?
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