During his forty-eight years as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J.
Edgar Hoover scrupulously maintained secret office files and arranged for special filing procedures to safeguard sensitive information.
None of the documents in five separate files was intended ever to be disclosed.
Athan Theoharis, one of the FBI's most diligent critics, secured these materials after intensive research in FBI files using the Freedom of Information Act.
Published here with supporting documents and Mr.
Theoharis's authoritative comments, they reveal the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using defamatory information about prominent Americans and political groups.
About author(s): Athan Theoharis is professor of history at Marquette University.
His many books include The Boss, From the Secret Files of J.
Edgar Hoover , Spying on Americans, Beyond the Hiss Case, Seeds of Repression, and The Yalta Myths.
He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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El-e-phant Books From the secret files of j. edgar hoover, paperback/athan g. theoharis
