| William T. Poole |
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Poole was a research analyst on the minority (Republican Party) side of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) staff from the mid-1960s until the Committee's dissolution in 1973. When HUAC ended, Poole took possession of files unwanted for permanent government retention.[1]
By 1977, Poole had become a senior researcher[2] and editor at The Heritage Foundation, to which he contributed through 1982.[3] His work received mention in the Congressional Record.[4]
In 1982, Poole gave his collection of material to the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University. The collection comprises 242 manuscript boxes (100.8 linear feet), including: reports, correspondence, minutes, hearing transcripts, legal exhibits, clippings, serial issues, pamphlets, and leaflets, relating to Communism and radicalism in the United States, and to the anti-Vietnam War movement, plus exhibits of Subversive Activities Control Board and files of HUAC.[1]
In January 2013, when the Hoover Institution acquired his collection of papers of Herbert Romerstein, it noted that Romerstein papers will be Hoover's largest collection on communist subversion and the activities of communist front organizations, complementing its previous holdings of papers of the Subversive Activities Control Board from William T. Poole.[5] [6]