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J. Edgar Hoover (1895 - 1972)
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Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime : An Historical Antidote
by Athan G. Theoharis
If the late FBI boss was homosexual, he took the
secret to his grave, according to researcher Theoharis. But that
doesn't prevent the credulous public and authors unscrupulous
about evidentiary weight, such as Anthony Summers (Official and
Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, 1993), from
believing allegations that the flagrantly antigay Hoover was
himself gay. Theoharis, not a Hoover supporter, exculpates him
from the specific charges in Summers' book. The interesting
parallel, though, was Hoover's tenacious pursuit and suppression
of rumors about his sexual proclivities, which Theoharis details
from such files as weren't destroyed after Hoover died. His
efforts to protect his reputation cast revealing light on the
FBI's ability and propensity to vacuum up information about fleshy
foibles of prominent people, namely, that such (mis)direction of
resources enervated the FBI's reason for being--crime fighting.
Theoharis contends as well that the internal security
investigations of the cold war, rather than a compromising photo
of Hoover supposedly possessed by mobsters, accounts for the lack
of attention paid to the Mafia during J. Edgar's tenure. As a
well-written argument on one aspect of Hoover's life, this work
can piggyback on the main biographies in libraries where they
still circulate. Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
 Official
and Confidential : The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by
Anthony Summers
Some would say that Anthony Summers is the
master of tabloid sleaze, but one thing is certain, this book got
the public to talk, to think and to wonder. It even inspired
a few people to create websites in defense of J. Edgar
Hoover's name and character. Still, Summers insists he has
the evidence to back his claims. Let's hope not.
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Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry
Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's
masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique
political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over
100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals
exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an
invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held
virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president
from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive
blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones
to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover
helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and
influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights
movement and forged connections with mobsters; and what part he
played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and
Martin Luther King Jr. A New York Times bestseller. 32 pages of
photographs.
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By Edward Spannaus, This article appeared in the
August 4, 2000 issue of Executive Intelligence Review
Excerpt:
J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation from 1924 to 1972, was notorious for his
targetting of black leaders, whether in civil rights, elected
officials, or other areas such as black newspaper publishers, or
the singer Paul Robeson. Newly discovered evidence now sheds more
light on Hoover's legendary fear and hatred of African-Americans,
suggesting that this may have been a form of self-hatred on
Hoover's part.
As we will show, rumors that J. Edgar was partially black were
commonplace in Washington, D.C. during Hoover's reign, and were
well known to associates of Hoover--and even to Hoover himself.
But a new book shows that stories that Hoover was "passing
for white" were also being passed down from generation to
generation a thousand miles away, through a former slave family,
once owned by another Hoover family, in the area of McComb,
Mississippi...
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Official Personnel
File of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI from May 10, 1924,
until his death on May 2, 1972.
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By Bruce C. Steele, The
Advocate, May 11, 1999
Excerpt:
They called one another "Speed" and
"Junior." They flew to Miami for vacations in the sand
and spent weekends at home in Washington, D.C., playing with
Speed's dogs. Unmarried men, they went everywhere together and
even dressed alike. They're buried only yards apart.
And if any of Speed's subordinates ever
suggested he was homosexual, an FBI agent would show up at that
person's office door and demand a retraction.
Welcome to the bizarre world of J. Edgar
"Speed" Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972, and his constant
companion, assistant FBI director Clyde "Junior" Tolson...
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From
The World Famous Lovers, Whores and Other Strangers
Now there was a real looker! He resembled
nothing so much as a bulldog with acute indigestion. On fairly
good authority, J. Eddie is said to have dressed up in a red
flapper dress complete with boa and entertained knock-out young
hustlers while they sat on his lap and he read them scripture in
the Plaza Hotel in New York. His running buddy Roy Cohn was said
to help arrange these bizarre little assignations...
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From crimelibrary.com,
© 1998, DarkHorse Multimedia, Inc.
Excerpt:
Rumors of Hoover being homosexual
swirled around him all of his adult life. He went ballistic
when he heard them and hunted down the individuals who had dared
to suggest such a thing.
On the other hand, there were many
things in his lifestyle that collectively made people wonder.
He apparently never had any romantic attachments with women, even
in high school. As far as anyone could remember, he never
had a date. There were classical statues of nude men in his
garden. He lived with his mother until she died. He
dressed like a dandy. Not that any or all of these factors
represent a homosexual lifestyle, nevertheless some people
interpreted them as indicators.
The single factor that gave rise to
the strongest rumors was Hoover's lifelong intimacy with Clyde
Tolson...
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From GayGate.com
This, perhaps, says it all:
Not only do we now know the FBI director to have
been in the mob's pocket, but it seems that he was the ultimate
closet queen and a hypocrite's hypocrite besides. (His intense
homophobia was obviously the rage of Caliban at seeing his own
face in the mirror.) Poor man... when you look like a bulldog's
butt, the loveliest gown can only do so much...
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