The smear tactics used by the Soviets to discredit J. Edgar Hoover by falsely charging that he was a cross-dressing sexual deviant are taken as fact by the media and many Americans despite the fact that it has been revealed that the charges – utterly unproven and absurd – were widely disseminated by, among others, the KGB's disinformation shop. In his book "The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI" Ronald Kessler effectively demolishes this filthy slander in which liberals love to wallow.