Former special agent and assistant director of the FBI, Ray Wannall, writes a comprehensive, insider's commentary regarding one of the most powerful, but enigmatic personalities of our time. Highly revealing and provocative, FOR THE RECORD sheds light on efforts to undermine Hoover's legacy and startling details as to events involving Martin Luther King, the Kennedy family, the Nixon administration, and much much more!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Real J. Edgar Hoover: For the Record (Hardcover)
FBI man Wannell was one of the agents who handled Morris Childs (biographied in the book Operation Solo) who may have been the most effective U.S. spy during the Cold War. Childs was second in command of the CPUSA for awhile, his brother handled the cash transfers from Russia, and he knew all the players. One of those Childs ID'd was trying to influence Martin Luther King. So Wannell's book has many details on the whole King wiretap plot, and its revelations of personal details.Wannell, like others who knew and/or studied Hoover, is skeptical about the Hoover cross-dressing stories, and he pins down the (dubious) source for that allegation. I'm only giving the book three stars because it's poorly laid out, not very well illustated, and a bit flat stylistically. A good, if sometimes imperfect source for researchers of the FBI's most controversial cases and the conflicts among its high administrators.
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