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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

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by Curt Gentry


  Kansas City massacre, 168-69

  Karpis case, 188, 192-93, 194-95

  Kelley’s directorship, 748-52

  Kennedy, John, assassination, 496, 497

  investigation of, 541-42

  Warren Commission, 552-57, 584-85

  Kennedy, John, surveillance of, 467-69, 470-72

  King, investigation of, 501, 505-6, 527-29, 567-76, 578, 599

  Laboratory, 132

  language school, 279

  Latin-American operations, 295-96, 326, 391-92

  liaison offices, closing of, 645-46, 655

  Library Awareness Program, 759-60

  Lindbergh kidnapping, 149-51, 160-63

  Liuzzo murder case, 585-86

  loyalty investigations, 355-56

  mailings, anonymous, 571-73, 575-76, 619, 622

  mail-opening program, 282, 412, 594-95

  mail routing system, 53

  Mann Act enforcement, 114-15

  Masonic lodge, 148-49

  Media (Pa.) documents incident, 674-76, 713

  microphone surveillance (bugging), 285-87, 393, 406-7, 456-60, 481-83, 532, 583, 584, 593, 594-95, 645, 714

  minority agents, 39, 280, 670, 755, 757-58

  name for, 180-81

  National Academy, 414-15

  national emergency list, 504

  “near-fatal” attack on (1940), 213-14, 216, 222-23, 224

  Nixon administration wiretaps, 632-40, 672-73, 689-90, 695-97

  “not to be contacted” list, 223n

  organized crime investigations, 328, 330-32, 455-60, 529-34

  organized crime’s penetration of, 644-45

  OSS, surveillance of, 267-68

  OSS agents in, 295

  Oswald case cover-up, 543-47

  paternalism of, 26

  pension program, 335

  Pentagon Papers case, 684-86, 692-93, 748

  plant protection system, 279

  police departments and, 146, 413-17, 419

  president, protection for, 181-82, 561

  presidential appointees, background checks on, 616-17, 626-27

  presidential elections:

  1948, 356-59

  1952, 402-3

  1968, 608-9

  press, surveillance of, 388

  Prohibition bureau, proposed merger with, 156

  promotion system, 129-30

  public relations efforts, 178-79, 183-84

  Rabble-Rouser Index, 602

  rebuilding (1924), 129-33

  Recreational Association, 448, 449, 743

  retired agents, 698-99

  Roosevelt administration officials, investigations of, 306-11

  Roosevelt’s critics, background checks on, 225-29, 237-38

  Rosenberg case, 419-28

  Senate approval of director appointees, 601

  Sessions’s directorship, 757-60

  South, agents in, 499-500

  Soviet penetration of, 643

  “special” cases, 132n

  Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 264n, 295-96

  standardization of, 130-31, 281

  State Department, penetration of, 408-10

  Sullivan’s rebellion, 687-91, 693-98, 704, 713

  Supreme Court, surveillance of, 630-32

  surveillance authorization controversy (1966), 593-97

  surveillance techniques, congressional hearings on, 586-88, 589-90

  telegraph and cable traffic, access to, 281-82

  Ten Most Wanted list, 172n

  vehicle theft investigations, 116

  vice raids in Miami, 216

  Vietnam antiwar movement, investigation of, 602, 605, 644, 650

  voluntary unpaid overtime (VOT), 116

  warrantless arrests, power to make, 372-73

  Webster’s directorship, 754-57, 758-59

  wiretapping, 230-32, 244, 285, 286, 324, 375, 583, 593, 594-95, 598, 645

  see also Nixon administration above

  World War I programs, 70-72

  World War II programs, 277-97

  worldwide network, proposed, 264, 326-27

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (Lowenthal), 386-87

  Federation of the Union of Russian Workers, 82, 83, 85

  Feehan, Ramos, 364n

  Felt, Mark, 23, 24, 25, 38, 43, 44, 48, 49, 50, 569n, 594n, 626, 651, 655, 672, 675, 689, 696, 704, 708, 715, 716, 718, 720, 728, 747, 748n

  Fennell, Margaret, 64, 66, 117, 217

  Fenner, Nanny Lee, 544, 546

  Fensterwald, Bernard, 587

  Ferguson, Homer, 357, 386

  Ferman, Irving, 439-40

  Field, Frederick Vanderbilt, 310, 493

  Field, Noel, 365

  Fields, Annie, 20, 21, 32, 49, 703, 720, 725, 730, 736, 737, 738, 740

  Fields, W. C., 385

  files of J. Edgar Hoover, 35, 41, 37, 142-43

  contents of, 45-46, 50-51

  disposition following Hoover’s death, 31-32, 44, 51-56, 728-30, 731-35

  “do not file” memorandums, 230

  Donovan file, 734-35

  Eisenhower file, 440-41

  Hoover’s attitude toward, 57

  Hoover’s plan to destroy, 701, 703, 707-9

  Kennedy, John, file, 352, 463, 470

  Nixon file, 46, 463

  technical surveillance data (JUNE MAIL), 373-75

  film industry, HUAC investigation of, 353-54, 383

  Finch, Rayme, 138

  Finch, Stanley W., 113, 115, 131

  Fischer, Dean, 663-64, 681

  Fleming, Ian, 269

  Fletcher, Howard, 368, 370, 372

  Floyd, “Pretty Boy,” 168n, 175

  Fly, James Lawrence, 234, 293, 438, 446

  Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 234, 235

  Flynn, James P., 532n

  Flynn, John T., 224

  Flynn, William J., 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 86, 90, 94, 104, 105, 110, 111

  Foley, John P., 530

  Fonda, Jane, 36

  Ford, Charles, 260

  Ford, Corey, 460

  Ford, Gerald R., 384, 549n, 556, 557, 628, 629-30, 677

  Ford, Peyton, 368, 393, 424, 426

  Formosa, Johnny, 490-91

  Forrestal, James, 469

  Fortas, Abe, 579, 627, 628-29, 631n

  Foxworth, Percy, 270, 296n

  Frank, Jerome M., 425

  Frankfurter, Felix, 98, 101, 124, 141, 157, 181, 323, 349, 403, 517

  diaries, 390

  Frankil, Victor J., 678n

  French, Paul Comly, 203, 204

  Freund, Ernst, 99n

  Frohike, Robert F., 707

  Frye, David, 703n

  Fuchs, Klaus, 341n, 375, 419, 420

  Fulbright, J. William, 435, 605n

  Gaffney, James, 634

  Galante, Carmine, 453

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 345n

  Gale, James, 549, 671

  Gallagher, Cornelius “Neil,” 458, 588-91, 680

  Gambino, Carlo, 330n, 530

  Gandy, Helen, 23, 24, 31, 42, 43, 44, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52-53, 56, 73-74, 128, 142, 617, 707, 718, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732-33, 737

  gangsters, public’s attitude toward, 167-68

  Gardner, Meredith, 366-67, 375

  Garfield, John, 370

  Garrow, David J., 502n

  Garson, Greer, 384

  Garvan, Francis P., 76, 77, 78, 94, 110

  Gary, Romain, 647, 648

  Gayler, Adm. Noel, 652, 655, 656-57

  Gayn, Mark, 339

  Gearhart, Bertrand, 296

  Gemmill, Henry, 681

  Genovese, Vito, 453

  George Washington University, 67

  German-American Bund, 205

  ghetto riots of 1967, 601, 602, 603

  Giancana, Sam “Mo Mo,” 456, 457, 458, 472, 486, 487-88, 490-91, 492, 495n, 535

  Gibbons, Nelson, 461

  Ginn, Opal, 29

  Glavin, W. R., 250

  Glover, John D., 758

  G-Man (film), 178-79


  “G-men” (radio program), 184

  “G-men,” origin of the term, 178

  Godwin, Earl, 222

  Gold, Harry, 341n, 419, 420, 423, 426n

  Goldman, Emma, 69, 74, 85-88, 186, 187-88, 237, 248

  Goldstein, Grace, 188n

  Goldwater, Barry, 27, 432n, 579

  Golos, Jacob, 342, 343

  Gompers, Samuel, 104

  Goodman, Walter, 302n, 354

  Gordon, Irving “Waxey,” 172n

  Göring, Hermann, 226, 467

  Gosden, Freeman, 259

  Gouzenko, Igor, 341, 346

  Graham, Billy, 384

  Granville, Robert R., 371

  Grapp, Wesley, 747

  Gray, L. Patrick, III, 30-31, 37, 41, 51, 53-56, 691n, 714n, 716, 726, 733, 740

  FBI directorship, 38, 41-44, 747-48

  Gray, Patrick, 43

  Greenbaum, Gus, 333n

  Greenglass, David, 341n, 419-20, 421, 423, 424, 426

  Greenglass, Ruth, 423

  Greenspun, Hank, 433

  Gregory, Darwin M., 738

  Gregory, Thomas W., 69, 72, 74

  Gromov, Anatoli, 342, 347

  Gross, H. R., 407, 595

  Gubitchev, Valentin, 368-69, 371, 372

  Gunn, William George “Bill,” 750

  Gunsser, Albert Paul, 737, 738, 740

  Gurewitsch, David, 302

  Gurnea, Myron, 339

  Gutekunst, George, 444n

  Guthman, Ed, 532-33, 536

  Guzik, Jake “Greasy Thumb,” 330

  Haber, Joyce, 648

  Hagen, Barry, 39n, 731-32

  Hagerty, Jim, 580

  Haig, Alexander M., Jr., 635-36, 637, 672, 690

  Haldeman, H. R., 27n, 28, 613, 614, 617, 624, 630, 637, 638, 641, 657, 661, 690, 748

  Hale, David Olin, 607-8

  Hale, Swinburne, 99n

  Halifax, Lord Edward, 229, 344

  Hall, Gus, 34, 443

  Halloran, Richard, 110n, 707

  Halperin, Israel, 341n

  Halperin, Morton, 632, 633, 635, 636, 637, 672, 753

  Hamilton, Polly, 173

  Hamm, William, Jr., 195n

  Hammett, Dashiell, 180n

  Hampton, Fred, 620-21, 650

  Hampton, Horace R., 285n, 634, 672, 696

  Hand, Learned, 372, 395

  Harding, Warren G., 103, 121-22

  Harlan, John M., 411

  Harney, Malachi, 163

  Harvey, William King, 392, 418

  Harwood, Richard, 593n, 604

  Hatch, Edward, 42

  Hauptmann, Bruno Richard, 46, 161-63, 256

  Hayakawa, S. I., 663

  Hayden, Sterling, 383

  Hayes, Helen, 370

  Haynsworth, Clement F., Jr., 626

  Haywood, William “Big Bill,” 71

  Hearst, William Randolph, 115, 121

  Heinck, Heinrich, 291

  Held, Richard Wallace, 647

  Helm, Edith B., 298-99

  Helms, Richard, 614, 645, 646, 652, 653, 655, 656, 714

  Hemingway, Ernest, 410

  Hendon, Robert, 191, 277

  Henry Holt and Company, 447-48

  Hershey, Lewis B., 623

  Heston, Charlton, 527

  Hewitt, Raymond “Masai,” 647, 648

  Heymann, C. David, 692n

  Hickenlooper, Bourke B., 386, 407

  Hickok, Lorena, 302

  Hill, Fred, 455-56

  Hill, Ralph, 459, 594-95

  Hill, Virginia, 333, 397

  Hillard, David, 620

  Hillenkoetter, Adm. Roscoe H., 392

  Hillings, Patrick J., 396

  Hillman, Sidney, 221

  Hiss, Alger, 257, 344-45, 346, 350n, 357, 358, 402

  espionage charge against, 360-64, 365-66, 438-39

  Hoover’s campaign against (1946), 347-49

  Hiss, Donald, 344-45, 346

  Hiss, Priscilla, 361, 363, 366n

  Hitler, Adolf, 468

  Hitz, John, 63

  Hoffa, Jimmy, 493, 495-96, 586, 587, 597, 600

  Hogan, Frank, 221

  Holley, Lillian, 252

  Hollis, Herman, 174, 175

  Hollywood Reporter, 648

  Holmes, Edna, 691

  Holmes, Julius, 316

  Holt, Henry, 387

  Holzoff, Alexander, 364

  homosexuals:

  FBI agents, 755

  Hoover’s blackmail of, 412-13

  Welles case, 307-10

  Hood, Richard, 353

  Hoover, Annie Marie Scheitlin (mother), 63-64, 67, 117, 216-17, 247, 248

  Hoover, Dickerson N. (father), 63, 68, 117, 247

  Hoover, Dickerson N., Jr. (brother), 63-64, 68

  Hoover, Herbert C., 125, 146, 147-48, 151, 152-53, 155, 228-29

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 247, 248, 249, 250, 253, 254, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 512, 513, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524

  amphetamine use, 692n

  antiradical activities (1917), 73

  appearance, 65, 159

  arrests, failure to make, 186-87

  attorneys general, relations with, 155-56, 583n, 712-13

  bachelorhood, 66

  Baldwin and, 138-40, 141-42

  Baughman’s funeral, 698-99

  Biddle and, 242-44

  birth, 62

  Burns and, 115-16

  Castro assassination plot, 489n

  celebrities and, 384-85

  charitable activities, 332, 448

  childhood, 63-64

  civil rights law of 1956 and, 441-42

  Clark, Ramsey, and, 598-601

  Clark, Tom, and, 323-24

  college career, 67-68

  communism, view of, 81

  congressional criticism of, 665-66, 677-79

  death, 19-21, 35-36

  cover-up regarding, 32, 53, 725-26

  reactions to, 21-35, 39-40

  death, fear of, 462, 705-6

  debating skills, 64-65

  Dewey campaign of 1948, assistance for, 356-59

  Dodd and, 591-92

  dogs owned by, 117n, 730n

  Donovan and, 135-36

  Dulles, Allen, and, 417-19

  Eisenhower and, 403-5

  enemies:

  rapprochement with, 711-12

  treatment of, 386-88, 390-91

  epitaph, 58

  estate of, 730-31

 

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