J. Edgar Hoover - The Homosexual Screwing
America
for 84 Years and the Zealots Coming In Behind Him
What I
Tell My Kids Series
Updated May 15, 2020 Link Updated April 29, 2020 - February 07, 2020
Context
In thinking about this piece about Hoover, in an age in which using
a name someone may find offensive for any reason they make up, I
tried to think how to explain J. Edgar Hoover's behavior if he was not
trying to protect himself from exposure as a homosexual. If his
behavior was not in defense of being gay, then was Hoover simply a criminal?
It also occurred to me that if Hoover
was not covering up for being gay, how can his protecting the mafia from investigation be explained? The FBI took public funds supposedly to protect the public and yet knew about the Mafia and did nothing about them for years.
As a partial apology for Hoover's behavior I gave a nod to the
fact that he was gay and would have been persecuted back then because
of it. But there are lots of people that suffer mistreatment and
who do not behave as Hoover did. It was also interesting that the
Kennedys were shut down by Hoover. The fact that senior members
of the mob claimed Joe Kennedy was running booze with them, and that
JFK dicked everything he
could, may have allowed Hoover to shut them down. Other presidents may have had use
for Hoover's conduct in their own nefarious ways, and the lesser
elected peons loved rolling around in the cash in the public trough like hogs far
too much to risk speaking out against a pernicious blackmailer and
shakedown artist who might expose them.
It
is still not OK to single out anyone in a derogatory
manner because of their sexual orientation. In Hoover's case it likely drove a capable person to become
a blackmailer and
shakedown artist to protect himself against what today would barely
attract notice.
J Edgar Hoover was clearly an intelligent and capable person. But in his day being a homosexual carried enormous
personal baggage, especially for someone in Hoover's position. Although
only a guess, the fear of being identified as a homosexual may have
driven Hoover to shield his deep seated anxiety about being sexually
attracted to men with the creation of one of the most aggressive, and largely
illegal
domestic spying operations (and here), (and
here)
created at the time. In the process Hoover built a culture of leadership that
understands you can shakedown anyone if you have enough on them, or
simply make up what you don't have and destroy them anyhow.
Hoover's attraction to men is most likely the reason why
Hoover refused
to admit the mafia existed for more than 20 years. If the mob had
anything on Hoover, they certainly would use it against him, and there
is historical evidence they
did (-2-).
The mob is certainly no different than any other criminal organization,
and all of them as history shows try to compromise
the government and
police(link updated) to protect their cash flows. Drug
cartels are a case in
point. The lesson from all of this it is that a
person's capabilities that count, and not their sexual orientation.
I did not know J. Edgar Hoover, but your aunt and her husband George
did. George was
a Princeton graduated accountant seconded to the US during the second
world war. He was also a capable businessman and built up a
restaurant chain of over 100 steak restaurants, numerous pizza
restaurants and Orange Julius type locations worth $62,000,000 in 1960
dollars around the time of his premature death, or half a billion
dollars in today's equivalent. George said he
and Hoover were long time friends and that Hoover
asked him to buy two horse
racing tracks he acquired to help Hoover. One track was in Freehold,
New
Jersey and the other was in Bowie, Maryland just outside the DC
beltway.
George never said what the help Hoover needed was, but it may have
been simply providing a safe haven to go and place a bet, have dinner
and so on. There was never a suggestion of anything
improper. Moreover, I was at lunch with George one day when he
was getting quotes from a salesman for a fork lift and they were
debating propane versus electric. I spoke up and said propane, thinking
it was to clear horse manure out the barns, which were well
ventilated. It was actually to
move the money from the betting windows. That was the first time in
my life I learned money could be a materials handing problem!
I was working at the time providing training to life insurance
companies and was challenged to find ways to help trainees make long
term behavior
changes. Compared to programs like Weight Watchers and AA, it appeared
to me that the military is one of the greatest behavior change
organizations in the world and I wanted to know how they did it. George
called Hoover on my behalf to see if he could provide
insight
into the processes they used and Hoover gave him reams of documents to
send to me that explained the processes used as well as future programs
being
worked on. Simply put military and intelligence agencies have been
working on ways to change and control behavior for many years, both for
recruits and for the public
at large. The record shows they are not constrained by any moral code,
lives lost or damage they do to society, domestic or foreign.
When I began using the information
from the material
Hoover provided it
worked better than I could have imagined. In reporting back to George
about the results I was seeing George asked a simple question "Do I
want to give this knowledge away to the insurance companies I provided
training
for?" and I said no. George told me to quit what I was doing
immediately and come to work with him, which I did. One of the keys to
behavior change in certain settings is simply changing it, no
permission required. Think boot camp or how we bring up our young
children.
Out of curiosity one day while visiting one of the tracks I asked your
aunt about Hoover and Tolson, who she knew. Your aunt told me
she could tell Hoover and Tolson were a gay couple from the
private time they spent together. She has a unique perspective on the issue
given that her first husband turned out to be gay. I cannot
say what lead to their marriage breakdown, although his coming out as
gay during the fear of aids era may have
been part of it.
Below, George and your aunt on the Taurus (shown below before it was
refitted and I believe extended when she redesigned it.) Not sure where
the photos were taken.
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