European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V Mist  Quot the of dec Ibex to Tahr his 1mm off thefuilp1ns Mil it make Hasmuk in Swap reviews by Christopher Lehmann Haupt new York times official and confidential the secret life of j. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers . Putnam a sons. Even in an Era of studies highly critical of Hoover the director of the Fri from 1924 until his death in 1972, Summers new biography sets a Standard of what might gently be called revisionism. If we Are to believe the Book s most extreme allegations then Hoover was indirectly responsible for the assassination of president Kennedy. As Summers secs it members of the mafia hired Lee Haney Oswald. They were fed up with the pc Nedys for harassing them through the attorney general s office a double Cross in Quot their minds because they had helped to elect the Percsi Dent by delivering phony votes in Chicago. And Why in Summers version of history was the mob at Liberty to kill Kennedy because its members had neutralized the Fri for decades by blackmailing its director. They knew of has homosexuality. They possessed photographs of him performing a deviate sex act. They had seen him at parties in drag. They had done him expensive favors. And so writes Summers Hoover simply denied the existence of the mafia and concentrated his forces on rooting out communists instead. These Are the most astonishing of the author s accusations but they barely surpass a half dozen or so others the most extreme of which Are that Hoover ignored an Early warning of the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that he conspired with Lyndon Johnson to blackmail the Kennedy into designating Johnson As John Kennedy a running mate and that the director himself was the victim of a watergate Era break in by the White House plumbers that May even have involved a plot to murder him. This is not to mention relatively minor details like the authors suggestion that writer Joseph lash May indeed have slept with Eleanor Roosevelt in the Chicago hotel room that Fri agents bugged in 1942,or that in 1952 Hoover spread the Rumor that Adlai Stevenson was homosexual or that the reason rep. Ger Aid Ford was the of big so Man Quot on the Warren commission was a compromising information on Ford Quot picked up from a bugged hotel room. As for Hoover himself sexual deviance aside he is portrayed As alcoholic bigoted megalomaniac addicted to gambling mentally unstable and prematurely senile. He apparently dreamed of being the head of a worldwide police Agency and never got Over being denied control of the Cia. Quot he accepted valuable gifts from people who wanted to influence him. He Felt he deserved the Nobel prize and was particularly enraged when Martin Luther King or. Was named the 1964 laureate. How seriously if at All Are we to take this portrait of Hoover which formed the basis of the recent Telvi Sion report the secret file on 3. Edgar Hoove i one of Summers previous books goddess the secret lives of Marilyn Monroe was impressive for its welter of evidence on the actress Clandestine ties to John and Robert Kennedy. In researching his Book on Hoover the author conducted More than 800 interviews and consulted much previously concealed documentation. Yet Summers documentation is unsatisfying. To Back up Many of his charges he cites single sources yet fails to weigh for the Reader their reliability. He neglects to Frame his discoveries of new evidence leaving us to figure out for ourselves from ill organized and impenetrable source notes whether his finding Are firsthand. Still the Case that official and confidential makes is so overwhelming in its detail and extensiveness that it has to be acknowledged As an impressive swamp of negativity about Hoover. 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