On May 10, 1924, John Edgar Hoover was appointed director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and remained in this post until his death in 1972.
The US Federal Police, established in 1908, is the largest police service in the world. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) pursues extremists, mobsters, spies, and corrupt politicians and businessmen.
However, many completely innocent people also fall into her crosshairs. Today, this huge department has 35,000 employees.
The agency would not have its current reputation without Edgar Hoover as director, experts say.
He has been described by many as a bulldog clinging to the bone. For half a century J. Edgar Hoover was the undisputed head of the FBI, feared even in the White House.
In the early 1920s, without having anything to do with the FBI, Hoover began collecting information on all kinds of anti-government activity. He decided to use several years of experience from his work as a librarian in Congress to create a card file, where not only communists and socialists were entered, but also participants in every anti-government rally, journalists, writers, trade union activists.
Throughout his life, Edgar Hoover was a staunch bachelor, and sometime in the 1940s, rumors began to spread about him that he was a homosexual. At their core is his longtime friendship with FBI Assistant Director Clyde Tolson.