The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover · 1993

The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover

William Cran · 57 min · United States of America

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.

Cast

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  Walter Mondale

  Self

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  G. Gordon Liddy

  Self

• Cartha DeLoach

  Self - Former FBI Asst. Director

• Richard Gid Powers

  Self

• Hank Messick

  Self