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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
surprising insider perspective,
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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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The Real J. Edgar Hoover: For the Record by Ray Wannall (Hardcover - March 15, 2000)
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