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Special Roles. Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, his colleagues believe, worried that undercover work would allow agents to operate largely outside the bureau's rigid discipline. Under Clarence Kelley, however, agents have posed as Mafiosi, fences, jewel thieves and swindlers...
...William Howard Toft according to the energy they put into the job (passive or active) and their feelings about their presidential experience (negative or positive). Based on that, according to Barber, they fit into one of four categories: passive-negative (Coolidge, Eisenhower); passive-positive (Harding, Taft); active-negative (Wilson, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon); and active-positive (F.D.R., Truman, Kennedy, Ford). TIME asked Barber, who has closely and critically studied Jimmy Carter for three years, to analyze the character of the President-elect. His report...
...think part of the bureau was realizing that the days of J. Edgar Hoover were not with us today, and was divided between those who thought that was a good thing and those who thought that was terrible. I think the bureau was very uneasy about its relationship to the Department of Justice and probably had considerable suspicion about its intentions. I think Mr. Kelley understands his problems and has been trying to give the bureau a new kind of leadership that is not the authoritarian leadership that Hoover gave...
Weinstein: For a historian it presents a problem I have no easy solution to--I know if I were a reader who had not done any work on the case and was told that Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover said one thing and Alger Hiss, or Defendant X, said another, I think instinctively perhaps my own attitude would be to be very skeptical about the accusations against Defendant X until I had proof to the contrary. For Mr. Nixon Alger Hiss remained a vital symbol throughout his public career. I think he probably dreamed about the Hiss case...
With the identities deleted, the summaries of Hoover's material make pretty tame reading. But the names can still be found in the original files, and thus J. Edgar Hoover retains a kind of posthumous power over those whose foibles were recorded in his O.C. folders...