FBI Director J Edgar Hoover’s Buffoonery Jeopardized National Security
If the public was alarmed by Rev. King’s private life proclivities then the public ought to recoil in shockwaves of revolting disgust regarding the depravity of J. Edgar Hoover who led the FBI from 1924 until his sudden death in 1972. During those tumultuous 48 years Hoover survived eight U.S. presidents.
While Hoover banned homosexuals from joining the FBI he had a relationship with his own deputy, Clyde Tolson, that went far beyond friendship. Apart from their mothers neither man had ever had much interest in women and the two bachelors became inseparable, working together, commuting together and even vacationing together.
On January 1, 1993 the British author Anthony Summers published his book titled, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, that details many contacts between Hoover and top crime figures. Additionally the book makes the case that Hoover was blackmailed by the mob with photos allegedly showing him engaged in homosexual acts.
Some of the relations stemmed from Hoover’s predilection for betting on horse races many of which were fixed by mobsters to assure that Hoover won.
But there was compromising photos of homosexual activity between Hoover and his longtime aide Clyde Tolson that allegedly were obtained by Meyer Lansky and another mobster Frank Costello.
According to Seymour Pollock, an associate of Lansky, “The homosexual thing was Hoover’s Achilles’ heel.”
Summers says the Mafia may have gotten the purported photos of Hoover from the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. OSS chief William Donovan and Hoover were feuding over control of foreign intelligence, and they investigated each other.
According to Summers, Gordon Novel, an electronics expert with CIA links, said CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton showed him several compromising photos of Hoover engaged in homosexual sex.
At one point Meyer Lansky said that Hoover was not a threat to him claiming “Everything is arranged.” Another Italian mafia boss Carmine Lombardozzi, who worked for the famous Gambino family, stated in 1990: “We had Hoover in our pocket. He was not someone we needed to fear.”
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Then there is the account of Susan Rosenstiel, the fourth wife of mobster and liquor distributor Lewis Solon Rosenstiel, who claims she saw Hoover dressed in women’s clothing and involved in homosexual play with young men at two sex parties, one in 1958 and another in 1959, at the ritzy Plaza Hotel in New York City.
According to Mrs. Rosenstiel Hoover was wearing “a fluffy black dress, very fluffy, with flounces, and lace stockings and high heels and a black curly wig.” Mrs. Rosenstiel said that Hoover adapted the name “Mary” but that she recognized Hoover despite the dramatic disguise.
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Before his relationship with Tolson, Hoover had a sustained correspondence with his Chicago bureau Melvin Purvis. Purvis was responsible for, among other things, the gunning down of John Dillinger Public Enemy Number One in July 1934.
Hoover reportedly showed personal interest in the handsome, popular Purvis (describing his “Clark Gable looks” in correspondence) and was jealous of Purvis’ public glory after the Dillinger raid. In 1935 Purvis left the FBI and in1938 he married Marie Rosanne Willcox his longtime sweetheart and raised a family. They remained married until his death in 1960.
In retrospect it appears that the FBI director was highly blackmailable, and the owners of compromising material were certainly dangerous individuals. For decades, Hoover stood before Congress, the press, and the American people with a straight face, insisting there was no such thing as organized in America. This while bodies piled up in the Hudson River, bullets flew in the streets of Chicago, and heroin flooded American cities via international crime syndicates. While Hoover vehemently claimed that organized crime did not exist in America organized crime types infiltrated unions, and lined the pockets of judges, cops, and politicians alike.
Hoover built his empire on surveillance, secrecy, and weaponized fear. Yet in the end, it was those very tools that besmirched his legacy. An attack on the mafia was held back for a long time and was tolerated by various governments. In the persons of Robert Kennedy and his brother Jack both Hoover and the mob bosses would eventually meet their first real opponent.
But the Kennedy’s had their own baggage of unscrupulous behavior.
The Kennedy men—starting with Joe Sr.—were notoriously promiscuous, with a well-documented family culture of womanizing. Overlaps were incidental or competitive. The most cited example involves actress Marlene Dietrich. Both Joe Sr. and JFK reportedly had affairs with her. Joe in the 1930s–1940s, JFK later. Then there was the flagrant affair with famous Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe who was pursued by JFK and RFK almost simultaneously.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President John Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and civil rights crusader Martin Luther King all achieved great public works even if their personal lives were akin to a dumpster fire.
– Mark Adams National Security Commentator