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J Edgar Hoover — Part 10
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Je ores. (ou, oUhhaehig Aiur ~ Jud orces 19
a
be Suproawo Jourt Ouia? Juutise.
Btone askad young (29) Hoover to take on and reorganize
tha thea corrupt Bureau of Iuvusi jon, stick hed bese set
up 1n 1908 but nos very closely kept truck ove Hoover agreed
only o1 condition that there be no politics and no outside
interferantee
"“Thosa are the only eondi tions on whioh you ean have the
job," snasped Stone ~ and the PRI was born.
dur five presidents and eleven @ttornsys general, Hoover Y
has bold steadfastly to those conditions. It bas not been easy.
But because be managed 1t, what was a catch-all for politisal
favorites became the finect law enforcement aeency the world
has ever kiown, its Dircotor ons of the sont deservadly
respected Anerioans of ow time,
Throuco Hoover's high devotion to principle, the name
G-man has entered the language as @ synonyw for heroisa «
eolned, ironioglly, hy fugitive -£ rom jus tice George “Mohine
Gun* Kelly when PBI Agente captured hia in 1953. . ‘
Ry breakin, t= back of the gangster-kiduapper ere
Hoover cot the guus, laws and equipment his Bureau needed to
cope vith and contain 100% the spy menace of World War Ii.
The knowledge of espionage sethods which that erxnperiengs
provided is now boing brought fully to beer on the probles
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