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Authors: Curt Gentry

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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (134 page)

10
. Mason,
Stone,
150;
New York World,
May 10, 1924.

11
.
NYT,
May 10, 1924.

12
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
67.

13
. Stone to Alexander, Sept. 21, 1937; Mason,
Stone,
150.

14
.
Washington Herald,
May 16, 1924.

15
. Stone to JEH, May 13, 1924.

16
. JEH to Stone, May 16, 1924.

17
. Louis Nichols to Mason, Sept. 9, 1950; Mason,
Stone,
152.

18
. JEH to SACs, July 1, 1924; Whitehead,
FBI Story,
69.

19
. JEH to SACs, May 1925; Whitehead,
FBI Story,
70.

20
. Thomas McDade, Charles Appel, and Edward Tamm interviews.

21
. Corey Ford,
Donovan of the OSS
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), 71.

22
. Steward Alsop and Thomas Braden,
Sub Rosa: The OSS and American Espionage
(New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948), 17; Stanley P. Lovell,
Of Spies & Stratagems
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), 177.

23
. Ramsey Clark interview.

24
. JEH to William J. Donovan, Oct. 18, 1924.

25
. Roger Baldwin interview.

26
. “They Never Stopped Watching Us: A Conversation between Roger Baldwin and Alan F. Westin,”
CLR
Nov./Dec. 1977.

27
.
CLR,
Nov./Dec. 1977.

28
. Baldwin interview.

29
.
CLR,
Nov./Dec. 1977.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Ibid.

32
.
WP,
June 19, 1977;
SFX,
June 19, 1977.

33
. Ibid.

34
. Baldwin interview.

35
.
CLR,
Nov./Dec. 1977.

36
. Stone to Alexander, Sept. 21, 1937.

37
. Mason,
Stone,
179.

38
. OC no. 30.

39
.
WS,
Dec. 29, 1924.

40.
Literary Digest,
Jan. 24, 1925.

C
HAPTER
11: “This Is the Last Straw, Edgar.” (Pages 145-53)

1
. Mason,
Stone,
183.

2
. Ralstone R. Irving, as quoted in Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan
(New York: Times Books, 1982), 97.

3
. Richard Dunlop,
Donovan: America’s Master Spy
(Chicago: Rand McNally, 1982), 162.

4
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
94.

5
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
163.

6
.
The Lowering Clouds,
vol. 3 of
The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), 88-89.

7
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
163.

8
. Ford,
OSS,
216.

9
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
168.

10
. Former Hoover aide.

11
. Edward Tamm interview.

12
. Leon G. Turrou,
Where My Shadow Falls: Two Decades of Crime Detection
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949), 109.

13
. Ibid., 114.

14
. George Waller,
Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case
(New York: Dial Press, 1961), 125.

15
. Hoover,
Persons,
277.

16
.
Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. 25, 1965.

17
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
166.

18
. Jeffrey M. Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty: The U.S. Navy’s Intelligence Dilemma, 1919-1945
(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 3.

19
.
NYT,
March 1, 1933.

C
HAPTER
12: A Stay of Execution (Pages 154-63)

1
.
NYT,
March 3, 1933.

2
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
99; Whitehead,
FBI Story,
90.

3
. Schlesinger,
Crisis,
2.

4
. Joseph Kraft,
Profiles in Power: A Washington Insight
(New York: American Library, 1967), 131.

5
.
New Republic,
March 11, 1940; Rep. J. J. McSwain to FDR, July 25, 1933.

6
. McSwain to FDR, July 25, 1933.

7
. Wheeler,
Yankee,
243.

8
. William Sullivan interview.

9
. Mason,
Stone,
152.

10
. Max Freedman, ed.,
Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1928-1945
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1967), 129.

11
. Raymond Moley,
After Seven Years
(New York: Harper, 1939), 274-75.

12
.
NYT,
July 30, 1933.

13
.
Newsweek,
Aug. 22, 1933.

14
.
Collier’s,
Aug. 19, 1933.

15
.
Washington Herald,
Aug. 28, 1933; Richard Gid Powers,
Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover
(New York: Free Press, 1987), 185.

16
.
WP,
Feb. 25, 1968.

17
. Former Hoover aide.

18
.
The First Thousand Days, vol. 1 of The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954), 30.

19
. Medved,
Shadow,
192.

20
. Ickes,
Days,
30.

21
. Turrou,
Shadow,
122.

22
. Ibid., 123.

23
.
NYT,
Sept. 20, 1934.

24
. Turrou,
Shadow,
124.

25
. Ibid., 125.

26
. Turrou memo, Sept. 21, 1934.

27
. Turrou,
Shadow,
127.

28
. ABC/TV News, Sept. 9, 1981.

29
. Ibid.

30
. JEH memo, Sept. 24, 1934.

31
. Hugh H. Clegg memo, Sept. 24, 1934.

32
.
SFX,
June 6, 1982.

33
. Demaris,
Director,
62.

34
. Ibid., 61.

C
HAPTER
13: The Rise and Fall of Public Hero Number One (Pages 167-77)

1
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
107.

2
. John Toland,
The Dillinger Days
(New York: Random House, 1963), 197.

3
. JEH address before International Association of Chiefs of Police, Chicago, July 31, 1933.

4
. Ungar,
FBI,
77.

5
. Thomas McDade and William Sullivan interviews.

6
. Melvin Purvis,
American Agent
(New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936), 24.

7
. Ibid., 2.

8
. Ibid., 18.

9
. Toland,
Dillinger,
285.

10
. Ibid., 286.

11
. Milton S. Meyer, “Myths of the G-Men,”
Forum,
Sept. 1935.

12
. Toland,
Dillinger,
321.

13
.
WP
clipping, n.d. (probably 1934).

14
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
123; Purvis,
Agent,
275-76; Toland,
Dillinger,
322-25.

15
.
New Yorker,
Sept. 25, 1937.

16
.
WP
clipping, n.d. (probably 1934).

17
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
106.

18
. Toland,
Dillinger,
338.

19
.
NYT,
Oct. 25, 1934.

20
.
NYT,
July 13, 1935.

21
.
NYT,
Feb. 6, 1938.

22
. Richard Gid Powers,
G-Men: Hoover’s FBI in American Popular Culture
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1983), 130-31.

C
HAPTER
14: A Problem of Identity (Pages 178-88)

1
. Drew Pearson,
Diaries, 1949-1959,
ed. Tyler Abell (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974), 284.
NYT,
Aug. 29, 1934.

2
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
101.

3
.
New Yorker,
Sept. 25, 1937.

4
.
NYT,
July 10, 1935.

5
. Hoover,
Persons,
xvii-xviii.

6
. Louis Nichols interview.

7
. “The Case of Dashiell Hammett,” PBS-TV, March 19, 1983.

8
. Edward Tamm interview.

9
. JEH testimony, House Appropriations Subcommittee, Dec. 18, 1934.

10
. JEH memo to AG (Cummings), May 23, 1935.

11
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
111.

12
. Francis Biddle,
In Brief Authority
(New York: Doubleday, 1967), 263.

13
. Ibid., 264.

14
. JEH testimony, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, April 11, 1936.

15
. Alvin Karpis and Bill Trent,
The Alvin Karpis Story
(New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1971), 13.

16
. JEH testimony, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, April 11, 1936.

17
. Powers,
G-Men,
132, 144, 147.

18
. Pearson,
Diaries,
284.

19
. JEH testimony Senate.

20
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
132.

21
. Richard Drinnon and Anna Maria Drinnon, eds.,
Nowhere at Home: Letters from Exile of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
(New York: Schocken Books, 1975), 208.

22
. JEH memo to Asst. AG Joseph B. Kennan, May 4, 1934.

23
. Drinnon,
Rebel,
279.

C
HAPTER
15: The Man Who Came to Dinner (Pages 189-97)

1
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
120.

2
. Charles Appel interview.

3
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
336.

4
. Ramsey Clark interview.

5
. Alan Belmont, Robert Wick, and Robert Hendon interviews.

6
. Appel interview.

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