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J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Took UFOs Seriously, Documents Suggest

By Lee SpeigelApr 20th 2011 – 8:23AM
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Several UFO stories appeared in the news this week, many miles and years apart. Yet they share a possible similar explanation: Earth-based remote-controlled devices. Earlier this month, the FBI created a new website, "The Vault," which offers the public an opportunity to view documents in an online "electronic reading...

Movie Depicting Hoover Gay Affair Rankles Some in FBI

By Allan LengelJan 9th 2011 – 10:43AM
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AP

The bulldog-like mug of J. Edgar Hoover has long been synonymous with the FBI, a world-renowned law enforcement agency forever hyper-sensitive about its public image. Still, Hoover's legend has taken its lumps over the years. Now comes the latest: an upcoming movie directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio...

The FBI File on Howard Zinn: 3 Historical Highlights

By David KnowlesJul 30th 2010 – 7:53PM

(July 30) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation today released 423 pages of its file on leftist historian Howard Zinn. The FBI started its file on Zinn in 1949, during the McCarthy era, over the author's suspected ties to the Communist Party of the United States. The feds interviewed Zinn, who died last year, in the...

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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.

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