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In one of the climactic moments of the new film J. Edgar, a thirtysomething J. Edgar Hoover reveals his plans to take a wife. The scene unfolds in a New York hotel suite, where Hoover has...
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 · Eastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous. "He was a man of mystery," he told ABC's "Good Morning America ...
Nov 14, 2011 · 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? Hoover and Tolson worked together more than 40 years.
- Destruction of his personal files became a priority upon his death in 1972. J. Edgar Hoover died at his home on the night of May 1-2, 1972; his body discovered the next morning by his chauffeur.
- The difference between personal papers and official files became a point of contention with Congress. Between May 2 and May 12, 1972, Helen Gandy worked on the personal files collected by J. Edgar Hoover, while at the same time she and other FBI officials took steps to preserve what they considered official files.
- Eight presidential administrations had been spanned by Hoover’s tenure as Director of the FBI. When Helen Gandy closed the last of the boxes (more than thirty total) which contained the papers she identified as Hoover’s personal files and sent them to the FBI for final destruction, only two known people had seen the contents of the entire personal file.
- Hoover’s Official and Confidential Files were released, though redacted, to the public. The Official and Confidential files kept by the FBI at the behest of Director Hoover, known as Hoover’s Official and Confidential files, were released to the general public in the late 20 century.
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Nov 9, 2011 · November 9, 2011 at 1:58 p.m. EST. 1. Hoover was a gay cross-dresser. Despite rampant speculation — that Hoover was gay, a cross-dresser or had no sex life — the truth about his sex life is...
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 .
