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Huston Plan, 654, 655
King investigation, 567, 568, 569, 570, 572, 574
mailings, anonymous, 619n
Nixon wiretaps, 633, 635, 636, 637, 639, 640, 672-73, 689-90
post-FBI years, 752-54
rebellion against Hoover, 687-91, 693-98, 704, 713
Sullivan, William H., 637n
Summers, Anthony, 494
Summersby, Kay, 440, 441n
Supreme Court, U.S., 231, 245n, 406, 443, 588n
FBI investigations of appointees, 626-27
FBI’s surveillance of, 630-32
Hoover’s hit list, 627-30
Hoover’s influence on, 410-12
Jencks decision, 449-50
Surine, Don A., 379, 440
Suydam, Henry, 178, 179, 184
Swearingen, M. Wesley, 284
Swenson, Eric P., 387
Taft, Robert, 377, 401, 437
Tait, Joseph, 459, 726, 741, 742
Tamm, Edward A., 46, 132, 133, 180, 188, 191, 207, 209, 210, 223, 227, 228, 239, 242, 268, 277, 278, 301, 308, 309, 317, 335-36, 404, 627n, 650-51, 699, 718
Tamm, Quinn, 416-17, 473
Tarrants, Thomas, III, 651
Tawney, James A., 111
Taylor, Maurice, 381
Teapot Dome scandal, 118-21, 122
Temple, Shirley, 258, 384
“Ten Most Wanted” list, 172n
Termine, Sam, 551-52
Terrell, John, 292
Theoharis, Athan G., 373, 559n
Theresa, Vincent, 105n
Thomas, J. Parnell, 352-53, 355, 358
Thomas, Lately, 445
Thomas, Norman, 446
Thompson, Malvina “Tommy,” 299, 304, 305
Thornburgh, Richard, 759
Thurmond, Strom, 358, 509-10
Time magazine, 143, 430, 567-68, 663-64, 681
Toland, John, 171-72
Toledano, Ralph de, 223, 240, 430n
Tolson, Clyde A., 73, 148, 182, 188, 195, 196, 215, 216, 219, 220, 234, 237, 250, 254, 257, 260, 263, 279, 283, 301, 336, 337, 364, 387n, 418, 439, 447, 448, 450, 461, 468, 470, 476, 479, 511, 512, 513, 526, 528, 547, 560, 594, 604, 608, 615, 640, 664, 667, 671, 677, 691, 704, 720, 733
as acting director, 38-39
appearance, 190-91
background, 189
“FBI” TV program, 581, 582
final years, 50, 735-36
health problems, 22-23, 650-51, 659, 703-4
hired by FBI, 189-90
Hoover, relationship with, 190-92
Hoover’s bequest to, 730
Hoover’s death, 21-24
Hoover’s funeral, 49, 50
inventions, 190, 744
on Kennedy, Robert F., 606
nicknames, 23
parsimoniousness, 737n
personality, 191, 598n
press, attitude toward, 22
resignation, 43
vacations, 217, 658-59
will of, 56, 737-40
Tolson, Hillory, 735, 737, 738-39, 740
Totenberg, Nina, 681
Touhy, Roger “Terrible,” 195n
Trafficante, Santos, Jr., 453, 495-96, 530, 551
Trohan, Walter, 233n, 314, 386, 398n, 434
True magazine, 615
Truman, Harry S, 257, 293n, 317, 339, 343, 370, 402, 428-29, 520, 542
Clark’s appointment, 322-23
election of 1948, 358-59
FBI wordwide network, proposed, 326-27
Hoover and, 321-22
Hoover’s attack on, 429-30
Justice Department scandals, 393-95, 396
loyalty investigations, 355-56
OSS and, 324, 325-26
as senator, 185, 186
White case, 349, 350-52
Truss, Thomas, 96
Tucker, Ray, 158-59, 228
Tugwell, Rexford, 226
Tunney, Gene, 265
Turner, William, 285n, 387-88
Turrou, Leon, 150, 161-63, 176
Tydings, Millard E., 432, 433
Tytell, Pearl, 716
Udall, Stewart, 580
Ungar, Sanford, 40, 169, 329, 413, 414n, 442, 674, 687n, 702, 749
United Nations, 345
United Slaves (US), 622
Urey, Harold, 423
U.S. News & World Report, 430
U.S. Recording Company, (USRC), 459, 740, 741, 742
Valachi, Joseph, 458, 532, 533, 535
The Valachi Papers (Maas), 533n
Valentine, Lewis J., 196, 197, 210
Van Beuren, Archbold, 267n, 315
Van Deman, Maj. Gen. Ralph H., 110, 190, 209, 706
Van Deman files, 706-7
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 193
Vandenberg, Lt. Gen. Hoyt S., 391
Vandenbush, Merle, 195, 197
Van Doren, Irita, 227
Van Zandt, James, 204
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 104-5
Vaughan, Brig. Gen. Harry, 257, 322, 327, 343, 350, 357
Velde, Harold H., 355, 407
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 413
Vietnam antiwar movement:
communist influence on, 604-5
FBI investigation of, 602, 605, 644, 650
Kent State incident, 644, 650
Vietnam Veterans against the War, 602
Vietnam War, 608-9
Villano, Anthony, 419, 427, 428, 594, 644-45
Vinson, Fred, 350, 410
Vitale, John, 440-41
Vogel, Edward, 490
Vollmer, August, 415
Von Eckardt, Wolf, 57
Voorhis, Jerry, 401
Wade, Henry, 550n
Wagner, Robert, 415
Waldrop, Frank, 468
Walker, John, 755
Wallace, DeWitt, 388
Wallace, Henry A., 306-7, 350n, 357, 358
Wallerstein, David, 99n
Walsh, David I., 287
Walsh, Edmund, 378, 387n
Walsh, Frank P., 99n
Walsh, Thomas J., 118-20, 121n, 122, 148, 153, 154-55
Walters, Selene, 261
Walton, Bill, 472
Wardrop, William B., 738, 739, 740
Ware, Harold, 345
Warner, Jack, 383, 580
“War on Crime” (comic strip), 184
Warren, Earl S., 410-11, 449, 549n, 552-53, 554, 555, 556, 597, 627, 630, 631n
Warren Commission, 546-47, 548-49, 552-57, 584-85
Washington Daily News, 387
Washington Herald, 127
Washington Post, 22, 33, 57, 660-63, 672, 674, 696, 736, 754
Washington Star, 28, 33, 153-44, 553, 595
Washington Times Herald, 314, 370, 468
Watergate scandal, 752
Watson, Gen. Edwin M. “Pa,” 181, 226, 229, 231, 309, 317
Watson, Marvin, 585, 597
Webb, Tommy, 383
Webster, William H., 754-57, 758
Wechsler, James, 462
Weeks, C. E., 250
Weinfeld, Edward, 425
Weisberg, Willie, 534
Weismann, William “Solly,” 169n
Welch, Neil J., 230n, 740n, 754, 755n, 756
Welk, Lawrence, 384
Welles, Mathilde, 308
Welles, Sumner, 287n, 307-10
Wells, Kenneth, 315
Wells, William C., 757n
Wenner-gren, Axel, 468
Whearty, Ray, 424
Wheeler, Burton K., 118-21, 122, 148, 157, 226, 269, 309
White, Byron R., 38, 474, 481
White, Harry Dexter, 293, 300, 343, 344, 345, 346, 349-52, 357-58, 389n, 390n, 428-29
White Citizens Councils, 441
Whitehead, Don, 81, 91n, 117, 118, 189, 445-46, 447n, 735
White Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act), 114-15
Whitney, Jock, 311n
“Why I No Longer Fear the FBI” (Ernst), 387
Wick, Robert, 191, 376
Wickersham, George, 113
Wilkins, Roy, 574
Wilkinson, Capt. Theodore S., 469
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 125, 126n, 145n
Willes, Jean, 261
Willey, Harold B., 632
Willkie, Wendell, 227-28
Williams, Tyrrell, 99n
Wills, Garry, 362
Wilson, Earl, 329n
Wilson, Harold, 571
Wilson, Jerry, 38, 415
Wilson, O. W., 415
Wilson, William, 628
Wilson, William B., 82, 89-90, 92, 95, 96, 97
Wilson, Woodrow, 61-62, 72, 83
Winchell, Walter, 178, 188, 197, 216, 218, 219-20, 222, 311n, 329, 332, 349, 386, 396, 397, 403, 445, 446, 512, 703
Winstead, Charles, 132, 169, 170n, 174, 281
Winter-Berger, Robert N., 323n
Winters, Bea, 383
Wise, David, 192, 639, 729
Wolfe, Tom, 647
Wolfson, Louis, 628, 629
Woodruff, Roy, 119n
Woods, Joseph, 38
Woods, Rose Mary, 617, 625, 673
Woodward, Bob, 627
World War I, 70-72
World War II, 277-97
Wreszin, Michael, 240
Yale Political Magazine, 527
Yaras, Dave, 331n, 333n, 552
Young, Andrew, 500, 508, 575
Young, David, 686, 693
Young, Gary, 753
Youngblood, Rufus, 615
Younger, Evelle, 263n
Zangara, Giuseppe, 206n
Zarkovich, Martin, 172, 173
Zerilli, Joseph, 453
Zicarelli, Joe, 590
Zimbalist, Efrem, Jr., 49, 261, 581, 582
Zion, Sidney, 422n, 425n
Zwillman, Abe “Longie,” 220
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J. Edgar Hoover: the man and the secrets
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1. Hoover, J. Edgar, (John Edgar), 1895-1972—Nonfiction. 2. United
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