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Sexual Obsession. In them, the longtime FBI chief appears almost obsessed with information about sexual habits, particularly homosexuality. In many of the 164 O.C. file folders, a deleted name is followed by the notation, "Alleged to be homosexual." In one memo, a man is reputed to be a homosexual and to be also having an affair with a woman. There is a report of a phone conversation between the director and Senator Joe McCarthy, who wondered whether somebody about to get an appointment was a homosexual. The folders even deal with allegations that Hoover himself was a homosexual. One three...
Convention Services. A 1960 memo describes the arrest of four prostitutes who admitted that a name-deleted official procured their services at the Democratic National Convention that year. Hoover made sure his information about the arrest was passed on to the official. Wrote Hoover tersely: "He appreciated receiving allegations...
...files are to Hoover's discredit. There is documentation that he opposed the Huston plan, hatched in the Nixon White House, to engage in illegal entry and surveillance. Hoover was doubtless proud of a 1940 memo telling how U.S. Communist leaders were urging party members not to vote for Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie since Roosevelt's re-election would make it easier to "keep Hoover's hands tied." He also resisted pressure-from undisclosed sources-to conduct a probe of Willkie because "the FBI would be accused of conducting a political investigation...
...Memo sent by Charles U. Daly, former vice-president for government and community affairs, and Robin Schmidt, former assistant vice-president for public affairs, and now vice-president for government and community affairs to President...
...years ago when this memo from President Bok's close aides prompted him to say that he "disagreed with the tone" of what he called a "hastily written intra-office memorandum" and "took exception to many of the ideas it contained...