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J Edgar Hoover — Part 10

75 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: J Edgar Hoover · 75 pages OCR'd
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Je ores. (ou, oUhhaehig Aiur ~ Jud orces 19 a be Suproawo Jourt Ouia? Juutise. Btone askad young (29) Hoover to take on and reorganize tha thea corrupt Bureau of Iuvusi jon, stick hed bese set up 1n 1908 but nos very closely kept truck ove Hoover agreed only o1 condition that there be no politics and no outside interferantee "“Thosa are the only eondi tions on whioh you ean have the job," snasped Stone ~ and the PRI was born. dur five presidents and eleven @ttornsys general, Hoover Y has bold steadfastly to those conditions. It bas not been easy. But because be managed 1t, what was a catch-all for politisal favorites became the finect law enforcement aeency the world has ever kiown, its Dircotor ons of the sont deservadly respected Anerioans of ow time, Throuco Hoover's high devotion to principle, the name G-man has entered the language as @ synonyw for heroisa « eolned, ironioglly, hy fugitive -£ rom jus tice George “Mohine Gun* Kelly when PBI Agente captured hia in 1953. . ‘ Ry breakin, t= back of the gangster-kiduapper ere Hoover cot the guus, laws and equipment his Bureau needed to cope vith and contain 100% the spy menace of World War Ii. The knowledge of espionage sethods which that erxnperiengs provided is now boing brought fully to beer on the probles
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