Gay? Don't think so. (And this was before Doris became a virgin!)
Posted on 11/09/2011 7:27:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Nope. Eliza Doolittle changed all that after he became “Accustomed to Her Face”.
Wow! Now the whole thing is ringing through my head, having seen the whole performance. Ah,innocent (well almost)pre gay times, when homosexual was homosexual and people knew. Never dared make false accusations or face retribution.
Well done!
"Say what you want about J. Edgar Hoover, but when he was around, nobody messed with the F.B.I.....and he looked better in a dress than Janet Reno!"
Oh yeah, and Hoover was as queer as a three dollar bill.
You mean the beard he is currently dating.
If you say so. I don’t know - but I do know he seems to run around after absurdly hot women. Not that there is anything wrong with that! ;)
Then there was the KGB rumour that Rock Hudson and Liberace were “gay”, when both of them were married! To wymyn!
Gay? Don't think so. (And this was before Doris became a virgin!)
J. Edgar appears to have been a proto-computer hacker, you know, fanboy.
“I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin” Oscar Levant
as a 3 dollar bill! lol.
You didn't need the KGB to ask such questions and give the expected answers, and it's not like the Soviets were Hoover's only enemies.
If there is a "conspiracy" here, you can chalk it up to the Mafia, and it's not really a conspiracy, just one of those rumors that spread and spread.
Mafiosi said they had photos of Hoover in a dress and by now a lot of people believe they did.
I don't know what Hoover got up to in the bedroom, but it's more likely that no such photos existed than that the Mafia had them.
Incidently, the film also insinuates that Hoover couldn't blackmail Roosevlelt with a suggestive letter from his wife to her lesbian lover, because Roosevelt knew about the relationship, and was cool with it. It also has a wiretap of President Kennedy having sex with "as East German Communist," and AG Bobby Kennedy more interested persuing Martin Luther King than further prosecution of Communist infiltrators.
Look, it is high time people on this website come to terms with the fact that libertarians and conservatives are different KINDS of Republicans. Federal law enforcement is not popular among libertarians.
As the son of a retired FBI agent, I am glad I did not see this movie with my father, as we originally planned. I am going to talk him and my mother into seeing the Margaret Thatcher biopic instead. Maybe it will get into her alleged affair with Ronald Reagan.
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