J. Edgar -- The Film Falls For KGB Disinformation (Was the famous FBI director really gay?)

The rumor that J. Edgar Hoover was gay is repeated in the new biopic J. Edgar opening this week. And herein lies a useful lesson worth noting: Hoover's alleged homosexuality was contrived by the KGB in the 1960s.

Despite the volumes of revelations about the true nature of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, even clear-thinking Americans cannot embrace the reality that one of the KGB's key functions was to run disinformation programs to undermine leaders and institutions in the West, especially the United States - what the spy agency called the "main adversary

In the 1960s Service A and Directorate K were the key departments dedicated to destabilizing Western nations. A large apparatus recruited agents to infiltrate government agencies, the arts, the film community, academia, think tanks and activist groups with the mission to recruit gullible leftists to the worldwide socialist revolution. One stunning example was using Phillip Agee, a former CIA officer, to publish names of active CIA officers and agents.

Another campaign sought to pin the JFK assassination on HL Hunt and other Texas oilmen, and later the CIA. There was an organized campaign to discredit Martin Luther King, Jr. after he repudiated Soviet communism, and later to manufacture the conspiracy theory that the CIA introduced AIDS into the black community.

The attack by Service A on the FBI director began with forged letters connecting him the John Birch Society and leaked forged letters to columnist Drew Pearson accusing Hoover of pressing a State Department employee to turn over information on suspected leftists.

But the scheme to characterize Hoover as a homosexual was so successful it has remained in the American memory, becoming an accepted fact expressed in books, films, on campus and on television as a confirmed fact.

There were more books than AGEE’s.

One after another “books” came out to discredit the CIA.
In 73 they did everything they could to destroy the CIA with the Church Commission.
They failed but the same bunch at work then is now running the Obama Administration and oops right out of the gate they went after the CIA.

The FBI was on their target list too, but Hoover had to much on them.

Once a commie always a commie.

Yeah, I’m sure the KGB also contrived the facts that Hoover never married, never dated a woman seriously, lived with his mother until she died, and had an ever-present male companion that he took vacations with.

Had an old Irish uncle who would fit above description. Definitely not Gay. He was also a drinker. Usually several pints after work at the mill. He probably realized no woman (except his Mom) would accept such behavior. Don't be so influenced by our present day-and-age. In other eras, people were more simple, and not so obsessed by sex, and there was no media that shoved it in their faces.

Had an old Irish uncle who would fit the above description. Definitely not Gay.

I agree with your assessment. Somewhere I had read of a classic explanation for that state of being. Simply put, the person is so involved in their own world and certainly with people who are wedded to a career - description is apt. That being a "Professional Bachelor".

The lovely lady who is also a pianist and who did so well in the Bush administration fits that description. I bear in mind the wise saying that "one cannot disprove a smear". Not completely true in every case, but there is just no hard and fast rule to crush a smear. That is why the lefties use smears.

Was Professor Henry Higgins gay? After all he didn't want a woman in his life and even sang about it...

I'm an ordinary man,
Who desires nothing more than an ordinary chance,
to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants...
An average man am I, of no eccentric whim,
Who likes to live his life, free of strife,
doing whatever he thinks is best, for him, Well... just an ordinary man...

BUT, Let a woman in your life and your serenity is through,
she'll redecorate your home, from the cellar to the dome,
and then go on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you...
Let a woman in your life, and you're up against a wall,
make a plan and you will find,
that she has something else in mind,

and so rather than do either you do something else
that neither likes at all You want to talk of Keats and Milton,
she only wants to talk of love,
You go to see a play or ballet, and spend it searching
for her glove, Let a woman in your life
and you invite eternal strife,

Let them buy their wedding bands for those anxious little hands...

I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling

than to ever let a woman in my life,
I'm a very gentle man, even tempered and good natured who you never hear complain,
Who has the milk of human kindness by the quart in every vein,
A patient man am I, down to my fingertips, the sort who never could, ever would,
let an insulting remark escape his lips Very gentle man...

But, Let a woman in your life,
and patience hasn't got a chance,
she will beg you for advice, your reply will be concise,
and she will listen very nicely, and then go out
and do exactly what she wants!!!
You are a man of grace and polish,
who never spoke above a hush,
all at once you're using language that would make
a sailor blush, Let a woman in your life,
and you're plunging in a knife,

Let the others of my sex, tie the knot around their necks,
I prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition
than to ever let a woman in my life

I'm a quiet living man,
who prefers to spend the evening in the silence of his room,
who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb,
A pensive man am I, of philosophical joys,
who likes to meditate, contemplate,
far for humanities mad inhuman noise,
Quiet living man....

But, let a woman in your life, and your sabbatical is through,
in a line that never ends comes an army of her friends, come to jabber and to chatter and to tell her what the matter is with YOU!,
she'll have a booming boisterous family,
who will descend on you en mass,
she'll have a large wagnarian mother,
with a voice that shatters glass,

Let a woman in your life,
Let a woman in your life,
Let a woman in your life I shall never let a woman in my life.

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