[preacher]

later

[Boogieman]

“Hoover’s alleged homosexuality was contrived by the KGB in the 1960s.”

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.

[decimon]

Wasn’t it Madame Lansky to make this claim?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[marty60]

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.

[Elle Bee]

next they're going to say that a president with a manservant/trainer/blackberry holder named Reggie Love is gay

hmmm.. must be the KGB getting back together

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[N. Theknow]

FWIW - My family knew Melvin Purvis when he retired to Florence, SC after his career with the FBI.

According to him, Hoover was an absolute work-a-holic who had no time for any social or personal involvements of any kind.

The FBI was Hoover's life and his mistress.

[The Wizard]

nonsense....Hoover was gay....

[Irenic]

I liked the Ernest Borgnine Hoover.

[SoldierDad]

I won’t be watching this hollyweird revision of history.

[Oztrich Boy]

"We're not Gay! You're Gay! Shut Up!"

[GreenHornet]

I remember Rush Limbaugh saying the following on his program several years ago:

"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!"

[Revolting cat!]

Then there was the KGB rumour that Rock Hudson and Liberace were “gay”, when both of them were married! To wymyn!

[Revolting cat!]

Gay? Don't think so. (And this was before Doris became a virgin!)

[x]

All that sounds quite tame and predictable: "How come he never married? How come you never see him out on a date with a woman? Why does he live with a male subordinate?"

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.

[presidio9]

Saw this movie last night. The only indication of Hoover's homosexuality is based on private conversations between him and Tolson, which, obviously, were never made public, and a blurb at the end of the movie that Tolson was the only beneficiary of the Hoover estate. Slim pickings, when the entire premise of the movie is less about what Hoover accomplished in a lifetime of dedication to his country, and more about "Brokeback Mountain" in really great suits and with fewer horses.

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.