Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, 95
Choisser, Dr. Robert, 501–2, 547, 562, 570, 572
Churchill, Randolph, 136
Churchill, Winston, 134–6, 139, 159
CIA, 147, 151, 237, 248, 288, 310, 367, 377, 444, 485, 488, 489–90, 493–4, 496, 502–3, 525, 533, 536, 538, 543, 547, 558, 560, 567, 570; Jack Anderson, plot to kill, 493–4, 502–3; Castro, Mafia/CIA plot to kill, 338, 343, 345–6, 386, 388, 389, 494, 538, 543, 547; opposed by Hoover, 181–2, 310, 460–1, 463, 488, 489–90
Civello, Joseph, 393
civil rights movement, Hoover and, 6, 36–7, 53, 58, 133, 333–4, 342, 363–5, 372, 386, 387, 412, 417 417–36, 439, 455–6, 458, 546, 569 see also individuals/organizations.
Clark, Leo, 412
Clark, Mark, 459
Clark, Ramsey, 249, 250, 440, 449, 561, 562, 568, 569, 571; on Hoover, 249, 449, 468, 553
Clark, Tom, 419
Clark, Wilbur, 287
Clark, William, 107
Clausen, Henry, 155–6, 557
Clifford, Clark, 186, 411–12
Clinton, Bill, ix Cody, William (‘Buffalo Bill’), 71
Coffman, Barbara, 210, 559
Cohen, Larry, 487, 545, 572
Cohen, Richard, 524
Cohn, Roy, xv, xvi, 221–4, 245–7, 249, 297, 298–303, 330–1, 368, 498, 535, 560, 573
COINTELPRO, 55, 195, 454, 456, 470, 475, 533, 570–1
Colby, Anita, 83, 99, 100, 533, 554
Collier, C. W., 24, 551
Collier, Rex, 115, 534
Collins, Patricia, 39
Colodny, Len, 546
Colson, Charles, 484–5, 486, 491, 492, 503, 506, 548
Communists/leftists, Hoover and, x–xi, 3, 33, 34–40, 42, 54, 58, 63, 110, 104, 115, 119–23, 129, 132, 166–8, 180, 184–98, 203–7, 208, 212–13, 222–5, 278, 331–3, 335, 356, 364–5, 369–70, 372–3, 375, 385–6, 405, 409–10, 415, 420–2, 429, 439, 454, 474–5, 529, 533, 544, 546; COINTELPRO, 55, 195, 454, 456–7, 470, 475, 533, 570–1; Hollywood blacklist, 188; McCarthy, 35, 54, 208–10, 211, 213–15, 221–5, 245, 310, 416, 498, 514, 534–5, 559, 560 see also individuals/organizations.
Congress, U.S., xi, xiv, xvii, xviii, xix, 5, 7, 25–6, 34, 38, 40, 54–5, 59, 64, 69, 82, 92, 100, 111, 112, 121, 125, 127, 128, 132, 159, 164, 186, 188, 191, 206, 209, 225, 226–32, 240–2, 244, 247–8, 259, 260, 271, 275, 276, 298, 299, 300, 309, 314, 315, 322, 334, 370, 371, 377, 381, 388, 391, 398, 403, 407, 424, 426–7, 436, 438, 446, 470–1, 473–4, 490, 499, 503–4, 508–10, 511–12, 514–16, 517, 518, 526, 528, 533, 534, 535, 536, 541, 542–3, 552, 561, 568–9, 572–3; Assassinations Corn., 177, 383, 384, 388, 391, 392, 394, 433–4, 542–3; files, 54–5, 125, 209, 224–5, 226–38, 240–50, 315–23, 334, 401–2, 412–16, 470–1, 512; Govt. Information Subcom., 509; House Appropriations Corn., 55, 69, 106, 132, 224–5, 228, 237, 251, 490, 574; H. Corn. on Crime, xv, 228, 564; H. Corn. on Govt. Operations, 245; H. Ethics Corn., 248; H. Judiciary Corn., 237, 299; H. Subcom. on Civil and Constitutional Rights, 184; H. Subcom. on Privacy, 245; H. Un-American Activities Corn., 168, 185–9, 196, 205–6, 226, 386, 546; Kefauver Corn., 222, 269, 272; Long Corn., 244; McCarthy, 35, 54, 208–10, 211, 213–15, 221–5, 245, 310, 416, 498, 514, 534–5, 559, 560; opposition to Hoover, xix, 7, 69, 111, 112, 125, 127–32, 184, 192, 224–5, 226, 240–1, 259, 334, 436, 438, 470–4, 499, 523–4; S. Foreign Relations Corn., 411; S. Intelligence Corn., 123, 132, 407–8, 459, 462–3; S. Judiciary Corn., 131, 164, 237, 241–4, 564; S. Naval Affairs Corn., 538; S. Rackets Corn., 334; S. Rules Corn., 371; S. Subcom. on Constitutional Rights, 184; S. Subcom. on Invasion of Privacy, 242–3; S. Subcom. on Investigations, 208, 221; S. Watergate Corn., 486, 495; support for Hoover, xviii, 7, 54–5, 69, 159, 164, 180, 184–8, 192, 195, 205–6, 210, 224–5, 226–32, 236, 271, 298–300, 334, 370–1, 398, 403, 424, 436, 511–12, 515
Connally, John, 362, 442, 560, 570
Connelley, Earl, 143
Cook, Blanche, 167–8, 558
Coolidge, Calvin, 66
Cooper, Courtney Ryley, 71, 91, 112
Cooper, Gary, 187
Coplon, Judith, 201, 202
Corcoran, Jimmy G. C., 92–3
Corcoran, Tommy, 131, 178, 239, 529
Corso, Philip, 384–5, 542, 567
Costello, Frank, 265, 267, 269, 272, 273, 280–4, 287, 291, 293, 295, 309, 390, 563, 564
Courtney, Max, 297
Cowley, Sam, 78, 79, 552
Crawford, James, 62, 63, 419, 501, 572
CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President), 488, 489, 492
Crolla, Edidio, 287, 563
Cronin, John, 195
Crosby, Bing, 101
Croswell, Edgar, 291
Crown, Henry, 268
Cummings, Homer, 69–72, 78, 79, 112, 121
Curtis, Tony, 336
Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 331, 540
Cutler, Lloyd, 163, 164, 557
Dalitz, Moe, 280
Danahee, Jack, 537, 566, 570
D’Anna, Tony, 122
Danoff, John, 353
Dasch, George, 162, 163, 557
Daugherty, Harry, 39–40, 44
Daulyton, Edna, 99, 166, 231, 232, 318–19, 554, 558, 560, 565
Davidson, Irving, 275, 393, 530, 537, 563
Davis, Angela, 106
Davy, Dorothy (niece), 10, 551, 573–4; on Hoover, 11, 12, 19
DeDiego, Felipe, 495, 496, 547, 548, 550, 572
De Gaulle, Charles, 386, 464
DeLoach, Barbara, 404, 413
DeLoach, Cartha, 243–4, 247–9, 396, 397, 317–18, 326, 350, 355, 358, 379, 403–4, 406, 410–15, 428–9, 434, 441, 529, 541, 542, 544, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 558, 561–2, 564, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573; on Hoover, xi, 29, 86, 101, 239, 260, 276, 313, 324, 328, 346, 384, 407–8, 415, 423, 427, 434, 463–4, 468, 481–2, 498, 512, 514; resignation, 464, 468
De Mohrenschildt, George, 394
De Toledano, Ralph, 214–15, 552, 553, 556
De Valera, Eamon, 60
De Voto, Bernard, 202
Dean, John, 464–5, 485, 489–91, 492, 503, 517, 570, 571, 574; on Hoover, 465, 490, 515
Dean, Patrick, 393
Dellafera, John, 537
Dewey, Thomas E., 179, 197–8, 231, 266, 267, 281, 282, 300, 559
Diamond, Joe, 507–8, 573
DiCaprio, Leonardo, ix Dickason, Denis, 39, 552
Dickinson, Angie, 349–50, 566
Dietrich, Marlene, 93
Dillinger, John, 3, 71, 77–80, 83, 118, 119, 266, 399, 528, 553, 554
DiMaggio, Joe, 95
Dirksen, Everett, 371–2
Disano, Eduardo, 280–1, 563
Disney, Walt, 187
Dixson, John, 303
Dodd, Thomas, 229–30, 560, 561
Dodge, Franklin, 65
Dolan, Joe, 331, 339, 362, 566, 567, 568
Dolan, Terry, 528
Dondero, George, 205, 206
Donovan, William, 146, 151, 532–3; file, 289–90; on Hoover, 118; rivalry with Hoover, 139–40, 160–2, 181, 289–90, 532–3
Douglas, William, 239–40
Dowd, John, 220–1, 262, 263–4, 554, 560, 562
Dowdy, John, 241, 535
Downes, Donald, 160
Doyle, Jim, 86, 554, 563
Dragna, Jack, 285
Dragna, Louis, 285
Drew, John, 274, 563
Duffy, La Verne, 371
Dufty, William, 417–18, 527, 528, 529, 533, 551, 556, 569, 580
Duggan, Laurence, 193
Dulles, Allen, 324
Dulles, John Foster, 71
Duncan Sisters, 182
Dunphy, John, 263, 562
Dunson, George, 87–8, 554
Eakins, Henry, 226, 560
Early, Steve, 153, 532
Eastland, James, 425
Eastwood, Clint, ix Eaton, Cyrus, 33
Eckhouse, Joseph, 528
Edison, Thomas, 9
Edwards, Don, 184, 569
Ehrlichman,
John, 503, 505, 506, 550, 570, 571, 572–3; on Hoover, 442, 446–9, 476, 478–89
Einstein, Albert, 190
Eisenhower, Dwight, 3, 62, 132, 173, 210, 212, 213–15, 221, 223–4, 234, 291–2, 308, 310, 312, 343, 376, 514, 559; antiCommunism and, 214, 221–3; file, 215; Hoover and, 3, 132, 210–15, 310; Mafia and, 291–2
Eisenhower, Mamie, 213
Elliott, Charles, 466, 467, 571
Ellis, Charles, 146
Ellsberg, Daniel, 4, 24, 474, 484–7, 490, 494, 495, 571
Elson, Edward, 22, 184, 558, 573
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 50
Engels, Friedrich, 34
Ennis, Edward, 127
Erickson, Frank, 282
Ernst, Morris, 205
Ervin, Sam, 237–8
Eskridge, Duane, 151–2, 552, 557
Estes, Billy Sol, 401
Evans, Courtney, 366, 368, 403, 562, 566, 567; on Hoover, 339, 360, 362, 363, 378, 544, 545
Factor, John, 74
Farley, James, 70, 128, 131, 527, 553
FBI files, Hoover’s, 55, 112–13, 121–7, 132–3, 143, 147–8, 187, 505–10, 512; search for, 5, 505–10 see also individuals/ organizations.
Felt, Mark, 382, 508, 510, 526, 554, 562, 565, 567, 570, 573; on Hoover, 330, 477, 512
Fennell, Anna, 31
Fennell, Margaret (niece), 14, 18; on Hoover, 19, 30, 41, 514
Ferrer, Jaime, 547
Ferrie, David, 387–9
Ferry, W. H., 358, 539
Fields, Annie, 501, 509
Fields, W. C., 165
Finch, Stanley, 327, 565
Fink, Robert, 526–7, 556, 561, 573, 579
Firestone family, 91
Fischetti, Joe, 320
Fleming, Ian, 139, 147
Fletcher, Howard, 252
Floyd, Charles Arthur (Pretty Boy’), 71, 80–1, 399–400
Fly, James Lawrence, 110, 128, 156–7
Flynn, William, 34, 36
Fonda, Jane, 454
Fong, Hiram, 241
Fooner, Michael, 66, 533, 562
Foote, Wilder, 197
Forand, Bill, 298–300
Forbes, Arthur, 103, 217, 554, 559, 566
Forbes, Mara, 103, 559, 566
Ford, Gerald, 248, 436; file, 379–80; on Hoover, 523
Ford, Henry, 24–5, 122
Fortas, Abe, 238, 414, 535; file, 239
Foster, Wallace, 69
Fowler, Jeff, 16
Foxworth, Percy, 143, 144; on Hoover, 158
Frankfurter, Felix: file, 37, 239, 551, 552; on Hoover, 37
Franklin, Benjamin, 11
Frasca, Dom, 366
Fratianno, Jimmy, 285, 563
Frazier, Mark, 495–6, 572
Freedom of Information Act, xvi, 5, 66, 123, 203, 232, 242, 250, 550, 562, 580
Freud, Sigmund, 24
Fried, Albert, 280
Fromm, Erich, 521, 574
Fuchs spy case, 533
Fulbright, J. William, 411
Gable, Clark, 76, 418
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 216
Gale, Gustave, 95
Gallagher, Cornelius, 244–50, 503–4, 536, 560, 561, 569
Gallinaro, William, xv, 538–9, 562–4
Gambino family, 265, 513
Gandy, Helen, 74, 77, 86, 167, 173, 206, 231, 313, 329, 347–8, 376, 418–19, 464, 482, 500, 505, 508–10, 514, 542, 573; on FBI files, 508–10; on Hoover, 28–9, 347–8, 418–19, 500
Garner, Grace, 529
Garrison, Jim, 289, 388
Garvan, Francis, 34, 70, 554
Garvey, Marcus, 420–1, 566
Gary, Romain, 457–8
Gaxton, William, 24
Gelman, David, 528, 529, 560
Genovese, Vito, 267
Genovese family, 275
Gerstein, Richard, 496
Giancana, Chuck, 282–3, 337–8, 345, 356, 537, 540
Giancana, Sam, 274, 282–3, 294, 307, 319–20, 334, 337–8, 342, 343–7, 352, 353, 356, 388–90, 537, 540, 563
Giancana, Sam (nephew), 537, 563
Gibbons, Nelson, 255–7, 530, 562
Gill, Michael, 234
Gill, Wray, 388
Godfrey, John, 139
Goldman, Emma, 36
Goldwater, Barry, 113–14, 238, 414–15, 442, 568, 569
Golos, Jacob, 194
Goodelman, Leon, 129–31
Goodwin, Richard, 403, 404–5, 409–10, 424, 568
Goring, Hermann, 313, 323
Gould, Robert, 294
Gouzenko, Igor, 194
Gray, Francis, 14–15, 17, 551
Gray, L. Patrick, 507–8, 516, 517–18
Greene, Graham, 147
Greenglass, David, 533
Greenson, Ralph, 356–7
Gregory, Dick, 6, 458–9, 571
Griffin, Burt, 381, 389
Griffin, Joseph, 103, 555, 562
Gronau, Baron, 142, 149
Grove, Dan, 443–5
Grunewald, Henry, 92
Guevara, Che, 475
Guggenheim family, 233
Gunsser, Albert, 221
Gurfein, Murray, 290
Haber, Joyce, 457
Haig, Alexander, 447, 476
Haldeman, H. R., 446, 461, 463, 473, 483, 489, 496, 503, 550, 551, 570, 572–3; on Hoover, 441–2, 447–8, 505, 517
Halifax, Lord, 161
Hall, Harry, 537
Hall, William E., 410
Hamill, Pete, 286, 538, 563
Hamilton, James, 357
Hamm, William, Jr., 74–5, 81
Hammett, Dashiell, 189
Hampton, Fred, 459
Harding, Warren G., 39, 46
Hardy, Robert, 455, 471
Harlan, John, 239
Harris, Curly, 94, 283, 554, 563
Hart, Al, 277, 294
Hauptmann, Richard, 68
Hauser, Joseph, 390
Hay, Harry, 93, 555
Hayden, Sterling, 188
Haynes, Norris, 548
Hearst, Randolph, 366
Held, Richard, 456, 458, 570
Hellman, Lillian, 189
Helm, Edith, 167
Helms, Richard 181, 237, 527, 558, 560, 570
Helpern, Milton, 502
Hemingway, Ernest, 189–90
Hemingway, Mary, 189–90
Hempstone, Smith, 291
Henle, Raymond, 113, 555
Hepburn, Katharine, 188
Herbers, John, 428–9, 569
Hess, Karl, 113–14, 555
Hewitt, Raymond, 456, 457, 458
Hickenlooper, Bourke, 206, 544, 559
Hickok, Lorena, 168
Higgins, Marguerite, 410
Higham, Charles, 104, 538, 554
Higman, Howard, 203, 559
Himmler, Heinrich, 137, 166, 520–1, 574
Hispanics, Hoover and, 59, 60
Hiss, Alger, 186, 193–7, 558
Hitler, Adolf, 43, 119, 124, 137, 141, 176, 241, 309, 313, 323, 471; plan to assassinate, 161, 557
Hitz, John (great-uncle), 12
Hitz, William (Annie’s cousin), 23
Hobbs Act, 292
Hochstein, Philip, 325–6, 565
Hoffa, Jimmy, 244, 275, 318, 334, 337, 352, 353, 355, 390
Holiday, Billie, 418
Hood, Richard, 187
Hoover, Annie (mother), 5, 8–13, 19–20, 77, 418; death, 20, 90, 99–102, 135; relationship with Edgar, 5, 10–13, 18–20, 30–1, 40–2, 43, 57, 90, 98–102, 135, 519–21, 522
Hoover, Dickerson (father), 8, 9, 10, 30, 418; death, 18, 30–1; mental illness, 5, 19, 25, 30, 34, 57, 519; relationship with Edgar, 5, 11, 19–20, 23, 25, 30, 34, 57, 519, 521
Hoover, Dickerson, Jr. (brother), 11, 19, 66; death, 22; relationship with Edgar, 12, 18, 31, 40
Hoover, Herbert, 39, 43–5, 66–9, 278, 483, 527, 552, 553
Hoover, J. Edgar: alcohol, use of, 88–9, 95, 216, 467, 497,
500; alleged arrest on homosexuality charges, 92–3, 285, 395; ambitions, 116–17, 124, 161, 180, 198, 210, 224, 231, 308–9; awards, 3, 110, 310, 340, 532; birth, 8, 9, 418, 519, 569; bisexuality, 106–7, 523; boyhood, 5, 9–2, 28, 34, 57, 94, 519–20, 549, 551; break-ins at home, 495–6, 503, 505; brother, relationship with, 12, 18, 31, 40; in Cadet Corps, 16–17, 22, 28, 520, 521; corruption, 6, 217–21, 260–4, 265, 276, 293, 298–300, 407, 491, 511; death, 1–3, 6–7, 18, 21, 45, 103, 108, 147, 153, 192, 218–21, 227, 231, 260, 263, 402, 418, 437, 450, 483, 496, 500–8, 511–19, 523, 551, 572–4; diary (boyhood), 8, 11, 13, 505, 549; education, 10–19, 21–3, 27, 35, 98, 520, 521; estate, 219–20, 498, 516; father, relationship with, 5, 11, 19–20, 23, 25, 30, 34, 57, 519, 521; firing/resignation issue, xi, 1, 4–5, 69–71, 78, 175, 200–1, 207, 324–7, 340–3, 346, 372–3, 361–3, 373, 399–402, 409, 449–50, 471–2, 474, 476, 478–84, 486–91, 498, 512; gambling, 276–7, 282–3, 297–8, 382–4, 433, 498, 513; height, 47–8, 514; homosexuality, ix–x, xii–xiv, xvii, xx, 2, 5, 76–7, 89–97, 98, 103–8, 135–6, 182, 200–2, 221, 284–90, 304–10, 318, 325, 351, 395–6, 413–14, 419, 450–2, 467, 522, 550, 555; homosexuals, public behavior toward, 103–8, 221–2, 413–14, 419, 448, 450–2, 570; hypochondria, 255–6, 497; investments, 219–21, 262–3; marriage considered by, 28–31, 99; mother, relationship with, 5, 10–13, 18–20, 30–1, 40–2, 43, 57, 90, 98–102, 135, 519–21, 522; poisoning, possible, 495, 502–6; psychiatric help, 5, 106–8, 182, 518–23; psychological evaluation, 518–23, 574; religion and, 12–13, 22–3, 204, 519; sister, relationship with, 19, 304; speech pattern, 16, 520; spending habits, 65, 207, 218–19, 259–64; suicide 504–5; Tolson, relationship with, ix, xiii–xiv, 83, 84–97, 98–100, 102, 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 125, 134, 135, 137, 144, 155, 164, 165, 166, 198, 202, 209, 215, 216, 217, 219–22, 231, 252, 259, 260–2, 263, 266, 272, 275, 276, 284, 285, 286–9, 296, 298, 303–4, 310, 311, 313, 324, 329, 402, 432, 436, 438–41, 446, 447, 450, 464, 467–8, 470, 473, 481, 497–501, 505, 509–17, 547, 551, 554, 560; transvestism, x–xi, xv–xvi, 5, 304–5, 522; women and, 15–16, 17, 28–32, 40, 47, 59–60, 74, 91, 98–103, 469–70, 521–2, 528, 553–4, 571 (see also individuals). See also FBI files, Hoover’s.
Hoover, John E. (cousin), 23, 32
Hoover, Lillian (sister), 10, 12, 19; death, 19, 304; relationship with Edgar, 19, 304
Hoover, Sadie (sister), 10, 519
Hoover, Virginia (Dickerson Jr.’s daughter-in-law), 22
Hoover Foundation, J. Edgar, ix, 297, 310, 537
Hope, Bob, 101
Hopkins, Harry, 118
Horan, James, 366
Hosty, James, 381–2, 542, 567, 568
Hottel, Guy 91–2, 96–7, 99, 178, 213, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 559, 562, 563