The FBI targeted MAD magazine in1957

In 1957 the FBI felt threatened by the Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD after the magazine ran a piece about draft dodging as a game, which involved writing to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and asking him for full-fledged draft dodger membership card. An FBI agent directed his bureaus New York offices to make contact with MAD and advise them of our displeasure and to make sure that there be no repetition of such misuse of the Directors name. The agent also decided it was important to give his opinion on the quality of the article: "It is also of interest to note thatit is rather unfunny. Read the rest