Edgar Hoover person
also: Director Hoover, FBI Director, FBI Director Hoover, Hoover, Mr Hoover, the Director
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Edgar Hoover worked_for
FBI reported
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“However Attorney General Francis Biddle recalled that Attorney General Jackson 'turned it over to Edgar Hoover without himself passing on each case in 1940 and 1941.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.203
Edgar Hoover spied_on
Martin Luther King Jr. documented
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“Edgar Hoover's cessation of the bugging of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.'s hotel rooms after the initiation of a Senate investigation...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.302
Edgar Hoover headed
FBI documented
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“Bob didn't like it and not liking it turned it over to Edgar Hoover without himself passing on each case…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.286
Edgar Hoover met_with
Franklin D. Roosevelt documented
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“Former Attorney General Francis Biddle recalled a meeting with President Roosevelt regarding the FBI wiretap on Harry Bridges 'When all this came out in the newspapers I could not resist suggesting to Hoover that he tell the story of the un…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.287
Francis Biddle met_with
Edgar Hoover documented
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“Former Attorney General Francis Biddle recalled a meeting with President Roosevelt regarding the FBI wiretap on Harry Bridges 'When all this came out in the newspapers I could not resist suggesting to Hoover that he tell the story of the un…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.287
Edgar Hoover spied_on
Harry Bridges documented
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“After an incident where labor leader Harry Bridges discovered he was under surveillance Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that FBI agents were in fact authorized to tap wires in cases involving espionage sabotage and serious crimes …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.287
Edgar Hoover worked_for
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“In a memorandum to Attorney General Biddle shortly before this press conference Director Hoover stated 'It was my understanding in our conversation with the President that the matter of establishing technical surveillance was to be continue…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.287
Edgar Hoover headed
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
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“In a memorandum disseminated to senior bureau officials on October 12 1964 Hoover noted There is no question in my mind but that we failed in carrying through some of the most salient aspects of the Oswald investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.59
Edgar Hoover met_with
The Washington Post documented
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“On September 29 1964 Mr Hoover after reading a Washington Post article captioned Praise is Voiced for Staff Engaged in Warren Report., directed that the Bureau's files on the 84 staff members listed in the article be checked.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.59