Editing Teach-in (section)

===Scrutiny and surveillance===
As part of the [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|antiwar movement]] at the time, teach-ins were regarded by the FBI (then directed by [[J. Edgar Hoover]]) and the Lyndon B. Johnson administration as potentially dangerous to national interests. At a teach-in organized by the Universities Committee on Problems of War and Peace, 13 undercover agents attended and identified students, faculty, speakers, and activists by name and affiliation, passing the information to the FBI.<ref name="davis">{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=James Kirkpatrick|title=Assault on the left the FBI and the sixties antiwar movement|date=1997|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=0275954552|url=https://archive.org/details/assaultonleftfbi00davi}}</ref>{{rp|29}}
A Senate study, "The Anti-Vietnam Agitation and the Teach-In Movement," was prepared in October 1965 by the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws.<ref name="senatestudy">{{cite book|last1=United States Senate|title=The Anti-Vietnam Agitation and the Teach-In Movement: A Study Prepared for the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary.|date=October 22, 1965|publisher=US Government Printing Office|pages=28–33}}</ref> This report stated, "In reality, the great majority of teach-ins (there were a few notable exceptions to this rule) have had absolutely nothing in common with the procedures of fair debate or the process of education. In practice, they were a combination of an indoctrination session, a political protest demonstration, an endurance contest, and a variety show." The study claimed that teach-ins were a form of Communist activity, noting that "people of known Communist background were frequently involved."<ref name="senatestudy"/>{{rp|xii}}