Immediately upon his death, Hoover's secretary for five decades, Helen W. Gandy, began destroying his files with the approval of Felt and Gray. She turned over twelve boxes of the "Official/Confidential" file to Felt on May 4, 1972. This consisted of 167 files and 17,750 pages, many of them containing derogatory information. Felt stored them in his office and Gray told the press that afternoon that "there are no dossiers or secret files. There are just general files and I took steps to preserve their integrity." Felt earlier that day had told Gray, "Mr. Gray, the Bureau doesn't have any secret files" and to prove it had taken Gray to Hoover's office. They found Gandy boxing up papers. Felt said Gray "looked casually at an open file drawer and approved her work", though Gray would later deny he looked at any thing. Gandy retained Hoover's "Personal File" and destroyed it. When Felt was called to testify in 1975 by the U.S. House about the destruction of Hoover's papers, he said "There's no serious problems if we lose some papers. I don't see anything wrong and I still don't."
Felt had the crown jewels just like Hillary and the FBI files. Who woulda thunk it.
> Felt had the crown jewels just like Hillary and the FBI files.
He did, but he flushed them down the toilet. You couldn't just burn them jewels onto a cd and quietly exit with them back then.
Even if Hoover's files are lost, I bet Felt passed on a string or two of pearls to Crown Princess Joan. Can you say, book deal?