Quote by David Grann

“Hoover’s attention to the case had waxed and waned over the years, but he had become so agitated about the growing criticism he was…

— David Grann

“Hoover, who believed that his men should conquer their deficiencies the way he had conquered his childhood stutter, purged anyone who failed to meet…

— David Grann

“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other means available…

— Christian Parenti

“The report also said I show great potential as an agent. I figure they must be right, since I successfully broke into a safe…

— Amy McAuley

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr.…

— John Sherman Cooper

“Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau’s finest profilers.”

— Lisa Gardner

“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way…

— Esther Perel

“History is written by the victors, they say, and there was no one alive who would come forward to dispute Hoover’s fabricated story. Never…

— Bryan Burrough

Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to…

— Louis Stokes

“When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is…

— Michael Ruppert

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk…

— Julie James

“White and his cowboy hat loomed over the diminutive Hoover, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted taller agents…

— David Grann