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HOOVER J.Edgar

 

Date of birth : January 1st 1895, Washington DC.

Date of death : May 2nd 1972, Washington DC.

 

Practise: director of the FBI during 48 years from May 10th 1924 until his death in 1972.

 

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He made the FBI the main instrument to fight against the organized crime, and during the Second World War, the main agency of counterintelligence.

After 1945 and during the Cold War, the FBI mainly developped his antisubversive activities, while continuing its fight against the organized crime.

He ordered an investigation about Marilyn at the time of her affair with Arthur Miller, target among many others of the House Un-American Activities Commitee (HUAC). Marilyn's file didn't contain any information about a possible relation with Robert Kennedy, Hoovers' sworn enemy ().

 

On April 26th 1955, he attended the Newspaper Public Convention (or Banshee Luncheon) at the Waldorf Astoria:

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According some biographers, he would have been involved in the events surrounding Marilyn's mysterious death. According to Anthony Summers, among others, Hoover was the most committed in a personal struggle against John and Robert Kennedy, than in the one against the Mafia and the subversion.

Summers thinks that Hoover ordered that some phone recordings made during the night of August 4th 1962, at Marilyn's home, would be destroyed.

He was charged with having installed wiretaps at the 5th Helena Drive in order to collect some informations intended to blackmail the Kennedy's brothers.

He was even responsible of having indirectly caused Marilyn's death.

 

In July 1962 he received a confidential report of the FBI office in Mexico.

This document dated from July 13th 1962, removed from Marilyn's file, has survived in the FBI files of Peter Lawford and Fred Vanderbilt Field.

The lawyer James Lesar learned that the source of this document was an informer known from Field and Marilyn.  It might be José Bolanos.

At this critical moment of the Cold War (the Cuba missiles), the relationships between the Kennedys and Marilyn would have posed a problem of national security.

A document from the CIA would prove that Marilyn's residence was under electronic surveillance. The alarm bell would have been activated when the FBI learned that Field had left Mexico and was in New York City, living at Marilyn's home, 444 East 57th Street, where he spent several weeks.

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