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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, 627
n,
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, 172
n

Termine, Sam, 551-52

Terrell, John, 292

Theoharis, Athan G., 373, 559
n

Theresa, Vincent, 105
n

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, 430
n

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, 387
n,
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, 737
n

personality, 191, 598
n

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,” 195
n

Trafficante, Santos, Jr., 453, 495-96, 530, 551

Trohan, Walter, 233
n,
314, 386, 398
n,
434

True
magazine, 615

Truman, Harry S,
257,
293
n,
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, 285
n,
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, 414
n,
442, 674, 687
n,
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), 533
n

Valentine, Lewis J., 196, 197, 210

Van Beuren, Archbold, 267
n,
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, 550
n

Wagner, Robert, 415

Waldrop, Frank, 468

Walker, John, 755

Wallace, DeWitt, 388

Wallace, Henry A., 306-7, 350
n,
357, 358

Wallerstein, David, 99
n

Walsh, David I., 287

Walsh, Edmund, 378, 387
n

Walsh, Frank P., 99
n

Walsh, Thomas J., 118-20, 121
n,
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, 549
n,
552-53, 554, 555, 556, 597, 627, 630, 631
n

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,” 169
n

Welch, Neil J., 230
n,
740
n,
754, 755
n,
756

Welk, Lawrence, 384

Welles, Mathilde, 308

Welles, Sumner, 287
n,
307-10

Wells, Kenneth, 315

Wells, William C., 757
n

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, 389
n,
390
n,
428-29

White Citizens Councils, 441

Whitehead, Don, 81, 91
n,
117, 118, 189, 445-46, 447
n,
735

White Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act), 114-15

Whitney, Jock, 311
n

“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, 126
n,
145
n

Willes, Jean,
261

Willey, Harold B., 632

Willkie, Wendell, 227-28

Williams, Tyrrell, 99
n

Wills, Garry, 362

Wilson, Earl, 329
n

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, 311
n,
329, 332, 349, 386, 396, 397, 403, 445, 446,
512,
703

Winstead, Charles, 132, 169, 170
n,
174, 281

Winter-Berger, Robert N., 323
n

Winters, Bea, 383

Wise, David, 192, 639, 729

Wolfe, Tom, 647

Wolfson, Louis, 628, 629

Woodruff, Roy, 119
n

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, 331
n,
333
n,
552

Young, Andrew, 500, 508, 575

Young, David, 686, 693

Young, Gary, 753

Youngblood, Rufus, 615

Younger, Evelle, 263
n

Zangara, Giuseppe, 206
n

Zarkovich, Martin, 172, 173

Zerilli, Joseph, 453

Zicarelli, Joe, 590

Zimbalist, Efrem, Jr., 49,
261,
581, 582

Zion, Sidney, 422
n,
425
n

Zwillman, Abe “Longie,” 220

 

Copyright © 1991 by Curt Gentry
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gentry, Curt, 1931-
J. Edgar Hoover: the man and the secrets
by Curt Gentry.
p. cm.

1. Hoover, J. Edgar, (John Edgar), 1895-1972—Nonfiction. 2. United
States. Federal Bureau of Investigation—History—Nonfiction.
I. Title.
PS3557.E458J18 1990
813′.54—dc20 90-30576

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