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J. Edgar Hoover was able to keep his job for several decades, using the mountains of dirty secrets he obtained from others.
In this he had the aid of Helen Gandy, whose demeanor couldn't have been more different than Hoover's, but who was effectively Hoover's right hand woman.
When Hoover croaked, Gandy destroyed all his secret files with the help of some agents.
Gandy denied there being anything inflammatory in those files, claiming the files were just Hoover's personal information.
But one writer, Curt Gentry, has his own theories about what was in those files:
In this he had the aid of Helen Gandy, whose demeanor couldn't have been more different than Hoover's, but who was effectively Hoover's right hand woman.
When Hoover croaked, Gandy destroyed all his secret files with the help of some agents.
Gandy denied there being anything inflammatory in those files, claiming the files were just Hoover's personal information.
But one writer, Curt Gentry, has his own theories about what was in those files:
"... their contents included blackmail material on the patriarch of an American political dynasty, his sons, their wives, and other women; allegations of two homosexual arrests which Hoover leaked to help defeat a witty, urbane Democratic presidential candidate; the surveillance reports on one of America's best-known first ladies and her alleged lovers, both male and female, white and black; the child molestation documentation the director used to control and manipulate one of the Red-baiting proteges; a list of the Bureau's spies in the White House during the eight administrations when Hoover was FBI director; the forbidden fruit of hundreds of illegal wiretaps and bugs, containing, for example, evidence that an attorney general, Tom C. Clark,[8][9] who later became Supreme Court justice, had received payoffs from the Chicago syndicate; as well as celebrity files, with all the unsavory gossip Hoover could amass on some of the biggest names in show business."All this makes Watergate look like a picnic. What would happen if all these dirty secrets had come out? How would the FBI have been reformed if the extant of Hoover's surveillance had been known?