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"ICH" -- - THE FBI lost much of its credibility when its chief J Edgar Hoover was revealed to be a transvestite who preferred to be called Mary.
Hoover, probably the most powerful men in America some say even more powerful then the presidents he served under, was the originator of dirty tricks campaign and kept a lot of dirt on other people in his files.
The only players who were immune to Hoover's secret files were those who had secrets of their own about his personal life - namely, the Mafia. Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold in America.
In May of 1972, Hoover - approaching his fifty-five-year anniversary with the Justice Department - boasted that the FBI remained the organization that he built upon his own principles and standards – of course now we know exactly what standards Hoover aka Mary had.
The FBI never really recovered its power or prestige once Hoover was outed as a cross dresser. There was more scandal to follow when Acting Director L. Patrick Gray was forced to resign after being caught up in the Watergate drama which brought down President Richard Nixon aka Tricky Dicky.
Originally posted by whatukno
This is well known, how about your take on this issue?
I feel that despite J Edgar Hoover's proclivity towards dressing as a woman, he did build a agency that is strong and eventually had a tight rein over the mafia. I also wonder if J Edgar Hoover's cross dressing might have been an early form of disinfo, staged so that the mafia would think that they had something on the FBI
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by Dubyakadubla
No I mean YOUR take on this. Not regurgitating other peoples theories. What is YOUR take on this issue. links are good for supporting an argument, but they are not an argument themselves. What is YOUR opinion on whether or not Hoover was a transvestite named Mary? Do you think this weakened the FBI against the Mafia at the time?