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fob fs, Coe «Ne. a BIOGRAPHICAL SI SERVIC ipo in 1_connection, x with his is_deoth. lregcirier should © be add : E Biographical Edi Editor, Amociated Press, $0 Rech sfalier Plaxo, New Yor SKETCH 4015. fasuecd April 1, 1958 : 4. EDGAR HOOVER. ©. FB, Director Born January 1, 1895. = --; LEDITORS: The following substitutes for Sketch 3589 issued Morch 1, 1950,] ‘By Te Associated Press} - The Feedvral Bure:u of Inves- “ tipation, unacr J. Edgar Hoover, enced the era of notorious gang- Sterism ana kidnaping in the’ United Stetes curing the 1930s, °"" thes threw iff protecting arm about natigne! security. Ih captured Nazi spies during Werld War ll and Coiminunist ames in the cold war. It was the FBI that discovered that the secret of the atom bomb had been stolen and given to Russia. Eviccnee cotiected by this sci- entific erime detecting orenniza- tion sent Quthus and £ihel Ro- Fen one te the eiceiric chair for ronast and others to ison. plas ins buas of collegc- Serriment agents ho to one “public after ancther. Among owas John Dillingws, prob- the most brazen outiaw e Jesse James. His killing BE s first big triur ph ~ killer-bank rob- ef ™! 1 rr ‘Trurkzed midwester: @ vac many crimes at- folwiad io Taduupe)er ana nis gang in their foray of less than a year were 16 miurders. Woman Betrayed Him - Dillinger s betrayed tothe Fi. by the “woman in red” who had gene to a Sunday might movie wits hint in 1934. Agents she’ him to death in a Chicara wiley whiie he was trying 10 draw 2 pistol. . anegsters George “Babe Face’ WSR S LETS wh orge Babs , £ ate Nelson, Charles “Pretty ae Flova and “Ma” iad Fred Barker were kilica. and Alvin Karpis and George “Machine Gun” Kej- Iv drow long prison sentences. Nelso1 hud killed three FRE arents before he in ‘turn was killed by agents in a furious pun battle at Barrington, HL Floyd and the Barkers also had clected te shoct i1 out with agents rather than surrender. The “G-men”" proved they couid outsmart and . outfight “Tuts”—Hoover’s tesm fer crim- inals, The FEI had an important part in solving the kidnap-mur- der of Charles Augustus Lind- berg}. Jr..one of the most shock- ing crimes of all, Tt was the co- ordinator of ai! Fed. ral investi- galive agencies that aided Now Jersey officials. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested as the abductor-kijiler and executed, At Hauptmann's trial] the pub- lie learned a lot about science in a . , ating. ~ eFime detection as va. ous won- - . _ ders from the FRI laboratory =~ were unfolded. ; Before the 1930s ended, Hoo-. .05 ver was able to say that not one organized crime Bang Was oper- nO The FEI in War - Then came World War It and , much greater responsibilities for the FBI. It put the heat on likely saboteurs so fast after Pearl Harbor tnat not a single case oi forcign-directed sabotage oceurred during the entire war. A great number of enemy aliens were jailed immedinitely. (eF ° Hoove:'s wen also ¥. coned Leet ey Gace SWOOReoS down on enemy premises and scized secret arsenals. ¢xplosives ” and other materials. Tney rec- 7 ommended securily measures for more than 2,000 war vlant: and ‘.. captured a. number. of spies. Sometimes the enemy espionage agents wore persuaded to dou- biceross Adolf Hitler. In one such case, the FBI con. structed a radio station that Germern spy had bien instructed to build on Long Isicnd. For two wears this man, working under strict sur veiilance, sent mislead. ing iniormeation to Germany that the FBI supplied. The FB!'s most spectacular vw arti me feat was the capture of eight Ceiman spies and sabo- leurs who ianded fr om subma- rine: enact TInes on ine TGasis of Flozida aud Long Island in 1942. AL! wore setoed within a dew das. efler their Tanding. Atomic Spying Discovered aloover personally assisted the Attorney Goneral in their prose- cutian, Sia were executed. The other two were spared that fate hecause tha- ¥ helped lo prepare the case assinst their fellows. One was sentenced to life im- prisonmeni and the other toe 30 Nears. Both were deported to Germany after ine War, In the fali of 1844 two more landed fram a German subma- ring on the ecast of Maine and were caught almost at once. A military commission sentenced them to nang but the President commuted their punishmeni to life imprisonment, With the spread of Russian communisnr after the war, the FLI was on its toes. It was in- formation gained in its investi- gation of atomic spying fo. the Soviet Unien that resulted if the 1950 arrest of Dr. Klaus Fuchs, the British goverament's top atemic scientist. Fuchs, a refugee trom Nazi Germany. pleaded ,uilty to be- traying ho idoptcd -ountry and was given the maximurr sen- tence af Ji vars’ imprisonment in England, He bad worked during tne war at Los Alamos, N.M., where the first atomic bomb was as- sembled, and at Harwell, the center of British atomic _Te- ‘hunt that sent the “for lon Periods aa search. A congression tec rated him as the “aah sp¥ in all history. : Oihers Rounded Fuchs’ arrest set to the chair and others During the 1649 trial Yor!, of 1] top America’ munist leaders, “on char Sever testified againy fendants. They kad agente hair toot a complete surprisc Communists wero ic ark a: to how many a: af iad Teciifving: before. sion) committee on sion, Hoever declared Communist party in try was & fifth columa rpanized tian were. eolumrs in Berope ? War, a polticel part - “Tt is 8 way of Kfe—in malignant way of life. I 2 condition akin to spread: lke an Hike an epiden.c, ace ing 4 : froover 2 gave a warniné Lainmuniso? in’ Ameri. made an appeal 19 Arigh for alertness to th: danzc a@ 1958 bock he wrote 24 “Masters of Deceit.” Big Robbery Sol The FBI aise was conde. with robberies of bec which there were Gover insured funds, transport J. EDGAR HOOVER - (1954) :