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Whitlock and the SDSers knew her only as a bizarre butvocal critic of Harvard's housing policies in Cambridge, particularly in her own building, Hoover, Loeb and Cleveland came into the picture in 1972, when Gill attempted to get her back pay for telephone expenses she incurred during her shadowy career...
Loeb evidently approached Representative Cleveland, for The Crimson obtained a copy of a letter from Cleveland to Loeb referring to a letter from Hoover and asking if the Congressman could be of further service...
...Hoover letter, which The Crimson also obtained and which was verified by the Boston FBI office, acknowledged that Gill had worked for the FBI but claimed that the Bureau had paid...
...marvels at how the FBI projects its own image onto that of its enemies, assuming that because it plays sneaky, they must also. J. Edgar Hoover himself could have appeared at a Harvard SDS meeting and gleaned as much useful information as Gill obtained. Her work was probably at best a minor nuisance to SDS, probably not worth the $50 the FBI allegedly tossed her every now and then. They surely could have invested their money more wisely...
...Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director, in a letter to a New Hampshire Congressman acknowledged that Gill had "furnished information" to his agency and that she had been "fully compensated for her services...