Reagan informed on people on scant evidence. He was on close terms with the FBI, and was in cahoots with J Edgar Hoover, and ensured the firing of Clark Kerr, one of the greatest educationalists in American history, who was opening up education to thousands of people from all backgrounds, and encouraging discussion of all ideas amongst his students.
The FBI gathered untrue allegations against Kerr, and Reagan was instrumental in ending his career. Anyone who challenged the status quo was investigated by the FBI. Most shocking was the breadth and depth of the FBI’s investigation and control over events at the University of California at Berkeley, using all the information-gathering techniques normally associated with the carrying on of warfare. Reagan was intimately involved in all of these events.