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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (134 page)
10
. Mason,
Stone,
150;
New York World,
May 10, 1924.
11
.
NYT,
May 10, 1924.
12
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
67.
13
. Stone to Alexander, Sept. 21, 1937; Mason,
Stone,
150.
14
.
Washington Herald,
May 16, 1924.
15
. Stone to JEH, May 13, 1924.
16
. JEH to Stone, May 16, 1924.
17
. Louis Nichols to Mason, Sept. 9, 1950; Mason,
Stone,
152.
18
. JEH to SACs, July 1, 1924; Whitehead,
FBI Story,
69.
19
. JEH to SACs, May 1925; Whitehead,
FBI Story,
70.
20
. Thomas McDade, Charles Appel, and Edward Tamm interviews.
21
. Corey Ford,
Donovan of the OSS
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), 71.
22
. Steward Alsop and Thomas Braden,
Sub Rosa: The OSS and American Espionage
(New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948), 17; Stanley P. Lovell,
Of Spies & Stratagems
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), 177.
23
. Ramsey Clark interview.
24
. JEH to William J. Donovan, Oct. 18, 1924.
25
. Roger Baldwin interview.
26
. “They Never Stopped Watching Us: A Conversation between Roger Baldwin and Alan F. Westin,”
CLR
Nov./Dec. 1977.
27
.
CLR,
Nov./Dec. 1977.
28
. Baldwin interview.
29
.
CLR,
Nov./Dec. 1977.
30
. Ibid.
31
. Ibid.
32
.
WP,
June 19, 1977;
SFX,
June 19, 1977.
33
. Ibid.
34
. Baldwin interview.
35
.
CLR,
Nov./Dec. 1977.
36
. Stone to Alexander, Sept. 21, 1937.
37
. Mason,
Stone,
179.
38
. OC no. 30.
39
.
WS,
Dec. 29, 1924.
C40.
Literary Digest,
Jan. 24, 1925.
HAPTER
11: “This Is the Last Straw, Edgar.” (Pages 145-53)
1
. Mason,
Stone,
183.
2
. Ralstone R. Irving, as quoted in Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan
(New York: Times Books, 1982), 97.
3
. Richard Dunlop,
Donovan: America’s Master Spy
(Chicago: Rand McNally, 1982), 162.
4
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
94.
5
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
163.
6
.
The Lowering Clouds,
vol. 3 of
The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), 88-89.
7
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
163.
8
. Ford,
OSS,
216.
9
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
168.
10
. Former Hoover aide.
11
. Edward Tamm interview.
12
. Leon G. Turrou,
Where My Shadow Falls: Two Decades of Crime Detection
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949), 109.
13
. Ibid., 114.
14
. George Waller,
Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case
(New York: Dial Press, 1961), 125.
15
. Hoover,
Persons,
277.
16
.
Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. 25, 1965.
17
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
166.
18
. Jeffrey M. Dorwart,
Conflict of Duty: The U.S. Navy’s Intelligence Dilemma, 1919-1945
(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 3.
C19
.
NYT,
March 1, 1933.
HAPTER
12: A Stay of Execution (Pages 154-63)
1
.
NYT,
March 3, 1933.
2
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
99; Whitehead,
FBI Story,
90.
3
. Schlesinger,
Crisis,
2.
4
. Joseph Kraft,
Profiles in Power: A Washington Insight
(New York: American Library, 1967), 131.
5
.
New Republic,
March 11, 1940; Rep. J. J. McSwain to FDR, July 25, 1933.
6
. McSwain to FDR, July 25, 1933.
7
. Wheeler,
Yankee,
243.
8
. William Sullivan interview.
9
. Mason,
Stone,
152.
10
. Max Freedman, ed.,
Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1928-1945
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1967), 129.
11
. Raymond Moley,
After Seven Years
(New York: Harper, 1939), 274-75.
12
.
NYT,
July 30, 1933.
13
.
Newsweek,
Aug. 22, 1933.
14
.
Collier’s,
Aug. 19, 1933.
15
.
Washington Herald,
Aug. 28, 1933; Richard Gid Powers,
Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover
(New York: Free Press, 1987), 185.
16
.
WP,
Feb. 25, 1968.
17
. Former Hoover aide.
18
.
The First Thousand Days, vol. 1 of The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954), 30.
19
. Medved,
Shadow,
192.
20
. Ickes,
Days,
30.
21
. Turrou,
Shadow,
122.
22
. Ibid., 123.
23
.
NYT,
Sept. 20, 1934.
24
. Turrou,
Shadow,
124.
25
. Ibid., 125.
26
. Turrou memo, Sept. 21, 1934.
27
. Turrou,
Shadow,
127.
28
. ABC/TV News, Sept. 9, 1981.
29
. Ibid.
30
. JEH memo, Sept. 24, 1934.
31
. Hugh H. Clegg memo, Sept. 24, 1934.
32
.
SFX,
June 6, 1982.
33
. Demaris,
Director,
62.
C34
. Ibid., 61.
HAPTER
13: The Rise and Fall of Public Hero Number One (Pages 167-77)
1
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
107.
2
. John Toland,
The Dillinger Days
(New York: Random House, 1963), 197.
3
. JEH address before International Association of Chiefs of Police, Chicago, July 31, 1933.
4
. Ungar,
FBI,
77.
5
. Thomas McDade and William Sullivan interviews.
6
. Melvin Purvis,
American Agent
(New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936), 24.
7
. Ibid., 2.
8
. Ibid., 18.
9
. Toland,
Dillinger,
285.
10
. Ibid., 286.
11
. Milton S. Meyer, “Myths of the G-Men,”
Forum,
Sept. 1935.
12
. Toland,
Dillinger,
321.
13
.
WP
clipping, n.d. (probably 1934).
14
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
123; Purvis,
Agent,
275-76; Toland,
Dillinger,
322-25.
15
.
New Yorker,
Sept. 25, 1937.
16
.
WP
clipping, n.d. (probably 1934).
17
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
106.
18
. Toland,
Dillinger,
338.
19
.
NYT,
Oct. 25, 1934.
20
.
NYT,
July 13, 1935.
21
.
NYT,
Feb. 6, 1938.
C22
. Richard Gid Powers,
G-Men: Hoover’s FBI in American Popular Culture
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1983), 130-31.
HAPTER
14: A Problem of Identity (Pages 178-88)
1
. Drew Pearson,
Diaries, 1949-1959,
ed. Tyler Abell (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974), 284.
NYT,
Aug. 29, 1934.
2
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
101.
3
.
New Yorker,
Sept. 25, 1937.
4
.
NYT,
July 10, 1935.
5
. Hoover,
Persons,
xvii-xviii.
6
. Louis Nichols interview.
7
. “The Case of Dashiell Hammett,” PBS-TV, March 19, 1983.
8
. Edward Tamm interview.
9
. JEH testimony, House Appropriations Subcommittee, Dec. 18, 1934.
10
. JEH memo to AG (Cummings), May 23, 1935.
11
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
111.
12
. Francis Biddle,
In Brief Authority
(New York: Doubleday, 1967), 263.
13
. Ibid., 264.
14
. JEH testimony, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, April 11, 1936.
15
. Alvin Karpis and Bill Trent,
The Alvin Karpis Story
(New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1971), 13.
16
. JEH testimony, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, April 11, 1936.
17
. Powers,
G-Men,
132, 144, 147.
18
. Pearson,
Diaries,
284.
19
. JEH testimony Senate.
20
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
132.
21
. Richard Drinnon and Anna Maria Drinnon, eds.,
Nowhere at Home: Letters from Exile of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
(New York: Schocken Books, 1975), 208.
22
. JEH memo to Asst. AG Joseph B. Kennan, May 4, 1934.
C23
. Drinnon,
Rebel,
279.
HAPTER
15: The Man Who Came to Dinner (Pages 189-97)
1
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
120.
2
. Charles Appel interview.
3
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
336.
4
. Ramsey Clark interview.
5
. Alan Belmont, Robert Wick, and Robert Hendon interviews.
6
. Appel interview.