The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover

The read

It runs a compact 57m.

Synopsis

For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades. The American Mafia, it is asserted, had damaging evidence about Hoover's sex life and they knew about his homosexuality.

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Key crew

• William CranDirector

Cast

• Walter MondaleSelf
• G. Gordon LiddySelf
• Cartha DeLoachSelf - Former FBI Asst. Director
• Richard Gid PowersSelf
• Hank MessickSelf

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