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Gill said a letter sent by Rep. James C. Cleveland (R-N.H.) to the late J. Edgar Hoover, former FBI director, was probably sent to the wrong person. The Crimson published a letter from Hoover to Cleveland Tuesday that revealed Gill's role as an informer, and another letter from Cleveland to Loeb referring to the Hoover letter and asking if the Representative could be of further assistance was published yesterday...
...Hoover letter, dated Feb. 3, 1972, told Cleveland that Gill "was fully compensated for her services, completely reimbursed for her expenses, and no money is owed her by this Bureau...
When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died last year, he left most of his estate of $551,500 to his longtime buddy Clyde A. Tolson, 72, who was with the FBI from 1928 till the day after Hoover died. Washington rumor had it that Tolson intended to turn Hoover's $100,000 Georgetown house into a private museum. If so, it will be an empty one, because Tolson has been quietly selling Hoover's art objects and other belongings at auction. In one consignment were four pairs of binoculars. For work or for Hoover's long days...
Heaven. As acting director of the FBI, Gray was at first well received by field agents. He sent out a flurry of directives loosening some of Hoover's harsh restrictions on their conduct. He said that he had "no hangups on white shirts," and permitted more colorful attire and allowed agents to wear longer hair. He dropped some of the Monday-morning second-guessing from Washington. Agents could for the first time keep Government cars at home overnight instead of having to drive to a central garage after a long day. They could even drink coffee at their desks. With...
...majority of agents are Protestants from colleges and universities in the South, Midwest and West. Catholics usually come from Fordham, Boston College and similar sectarian institutions; Ivy League universities have only token representation in the bureau. Under J. Edgar Hoover, only a few Jews made the ranks of the FBI. Old Hoover supporters contend that the director distrusted Jews not because of their religion but because of their supposed liberalism. Today only about 120 agents are black, Spanish-surnamed or Oriental, and two are women...