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The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.

Harry Hay

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Harry Hay
Age: 90 †
Born: 1912
Born: April 7
Died: 2002
Died: October 24
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