“J. Edgar Hoover held more power in the
United States, for longer, than any man in history. As Director of the FBI for
nearly fifty years, from 1924 until his death in 1972, he was long portrayed as
a full-fledged American Hero. Four decades on, it is clear he was a master
manipulator of presidents and politicians, a charlatan whose holier-than-thou
super cop image was no more than a carefully engineered pose.”
“Hoover was concerned about subversion, and under his leadership, the FBI spied
upon tens of thousands of suspected subversives and radicals. According to
critics, Hoover tended to exaggerate the dangers of these alleged subversives and many times overstepped his bounds in
his pursuit of eliminating that perceived threat.”
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