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Research request: Full citations for quotations about Hoover by Karpis.
1996
Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E) TV special: "J. Examiner, 13 January 1991, page 1.
Research request: More info on content of article?
1991, September 15
Oshinsky, David M.
"The Senior G-Man". His love was the bureau. Anthony Summers told a story from his book about Hoover and his associate director, Clyde Tolson, holding hands in a taxi. "J. Frank's case is already regarded as a landmark chapter in the unfolding story of the quest for civil rights for all Americans.
1990, June
Frank Buttino, a 20-year veteran FBI agent was fired for being homosexual and therefore an alleged security risk.
He soon after filed suit in 1990, challenging his dismissal as a security risk after he admitted being homosexual.
When Hoover died, Tolson inherited his estate worth $3.6m at today’s value and the American flag draped on Hoover’s coffin. Extended undercover assignments had prepared him brilliantly for life deep in the closet and enabled him to form a discreet relationship with another man.
But that is the easiest argument for sceptics to demolish. This time the boys were “dressed in leather,” and Hoover wore a red dress and a black feather boa. After years of denial, Frank had finally admitted to himself that he was gay. . . Let’s look at Summers’ allegations:
- Allegations about Hoover being gay dated back to the 1930s.
See also: 1993, December.
1993, December
When the trial of fired FBI agent Frank Bottino began in a U.S. district court in San Francisco in December 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno lifted the ban on gays in the FBI. Buttino won compensation including pension rights. Search term: "homosexual": Frank Buttino, a 20-year veteran FBI agent filed suit in 1990, challenging his dismissal as a security risk after he admitted being homosexual.Poveda and others, page 137.
1999, September 23
Andrew, Christopher.Research request: full citation?
According to Summers' highly contested version: In 1958 the bisexual millionaire distiller and philanthropist Lewis Solon Rosenstiel asked Susan, his fourth wife, if—having been previously married to another bisexual man for nine years—she had ever seen “a homosexual orgy.” Although she had once surprised her sixty-eight-year-old husband in bed with his attorney, Roy Cohn, Susan told Summers that she had never before been invited to view sex between men.
Includes source notes. Theoharis’s authority on these questions is grounded in his reputation as one of the most knowledgeable and dedicated scholars of the FBI and one who has meticulously documented Hoover’s violations and manipulation of American law for decades before this controversy erupted. War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998).
1998, November 9
Tony Poveda; Richard Powers; Susan Rosenfeld; Athan G.Theoharis. J. And for most of that period, homosexuality was illegal.
- Two former officials of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – forerunner of the CIA – and others in the intelligence community had seen photos of Hoover having sex with Tolson.
- OSS chief William Donovan and Hoover investigated each other while feuding over who should control foreign intelligence.
Carroll & Graf 1st edition (November 1991).