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Nov 10, 20111:21 PM. Clyde Tolson and J. Edgar Hoover never openly acknowledged a sexual or romantic relationship. Photograph courtesy UCLA Library. In one of the climactic moments of the...
Clyde Anderson Tolson (May 22, 1900 – April 14, 1975) was the second-ranking official of the FBI from 1930 until 1972, from 1947 titled Associate Director, primarily responsible for personnel and discipline. He was the protégé and long-time top deputy of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
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Nov 14, 2011 · Posted on November 14, 2011 by Ken Ackerman. The new film J. Edgar takes the well-known relationship between long-time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo diCaprio) and his long-time FBI number-two Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) and develops it into a major theme. What do we actually know about it?
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Hoover hires recently-graduated attorney Clyde Tolson to the Bureau in 1930; the two develop a close personal relationship, and Hoover promotes Tolson to Associate Director. When Hoover confesses to Annie his discomfiture about being in romantic situations with women, she says she would rather he be dead than gay.
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Clyde Tolson is buried with Hoover at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington. J. Edgar Hoover, Royal Miller, Clyde Tolson. and Joseph McCarthy on holiday in California. By John Simkin ( john@spartacus-educational.com) © September 1997 (updated January 2020). Subscribe to our Spartacus Newsletter and keep up to date with the latest articles.
Apr 15, 1975 · Clyde A. Tolson, former associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and, for more than 30 years the closest friend and associate of its director, J. Edgar Hoover, died...
Jun 18, 2010 · Ironically, rumors that Hoover himself was a closeted homosexual–and had a sexual relationship with his close friend and right-hand man at the FBI, Clyde Tolson–had swirled since the 1930s.
