J. Edgar Hoover
Where each worldview places it
33rd-degree Freemason and "legendary director and manipulator of the FBI", head of the FBI at the time of the Kennedy assassination[1].
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Places
- Key events
- the Truman years: sends two FBI agents to look after a drunk Truman[2]
- 1963: hated Kennedy, who planned to remove him after the 1964 election, and is named on the Pegasus tapes among the planners of the assassination[3]
- 1960s: his FBI plots to stop the black civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement[4]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01He and Meyer Lansky "sometimes broke bread together", he was a close friend of Louis M. Bloomfield, and his foundation was funded by the ADL[3].
- 02The Pegasus tapes contain conversations between Rockefeller and Hoover[3].
- 03He was a protégé of Harlan F. Stone, and a British officer sat with him during the war[5].