The Real J. Edgar Hoover? (The rumor that he was gay was Communist disinformation)

American Thinker ^ | 08/03/2013 | Paul Kengor, Grove City College

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Edward S. Miller, a lifetime FBI man of high rank and stature, recently passed away at the age of 89. A good man and good American, Miller, who was also a veteran of World War II (Okinawa), faithfully served his family, country, and God. He also faithfully served the agency that hired him in 1950, as well as the longtime head of that agency, J. Edgar Hoover.

I was fortunate to spend a long Saturday afternoon with Ed Miller back in March, at long last meeting him after previously only corresponding with him. (He was an alumnus of Grove City College, where I teach.) It was a time I won't forget, and Miller had some things he wanted me not to forget -- and to share with the public.

Foremost among them was his take on J. Edgar Hoover. He wanted the world to know what he insisted was the real J. Edgar Hoover -- a man totally contrary to the hysterical left-wing Hollywood portrayal that frames the FBI director as a mix between lunatic anti-communist, power-hungry Napoleonic authoritarian, and closet homosexual and cross-dresser. According to Ed Miller, none of it was true.

"He was terrific," Miller told me of Hoover, instantly knowing that such isn't the typical take on the man who was the face of the FBI for parts of six decades. During our detailed and varied conversation, few subjects lit up Miller quite like his old boss. Hoover was "great." He was "sharp." He was "absolutely brilliant." He was "wonderful."

Miller proceeded to give me example after example. Among them, here's one that will throw liberals for a loop, clashing as it does with their ideological prejudices:

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There’s a bit in the Army hearings with McCarthy and Cohn where one of the persons (a senator, I think) asks about a photo Mr. Cohn is exhibiting (of a soldier with an officer, I believe). The whole thing is shown to establish that some soldier who got some kind of “preferential treatment”, it was accused by the Left (again if I remember), got his leave/vacation because he “knew” the officer he was pictured with in the photo, not because of behind the scenes maneuvers by McCarthy/Cohn in exchange for friendly testimony about Communist inflitration into the miltiary/State Department.

It was really “off in the weeds” stuff but the Commie filmmaker who redacted the hearings footage down to “Point of Order” in the 60s or 70s thought it relevant to show “McCarthy/Cohn faked photos just as they accused the Communists of doing” (a third person was cropped out of the enlarged photo, not painted out, the critics point being that the officer was looking at the other officer, not the soldier in between them).

ANYWAY, the person (a Senator I think) asks Mr. Cohn where he got the photo and asks if he got it from a “fairy godmother”, emphasis on fairy, and Mr. Cohn replies that he don’t know nuthin’ about no fairies, to the laugh of everyone in the room. Basically Mr. Cohn was being called out by the Pinko Democrats as a faggot.

And the “horrible” crime of Mr. Cohn was to state that there had been Communists loyal to the USSR infiltrated in the US military and State Department. There are Islamists loyal to jihad there today.

“HOW DARE YOU?” was the shocking charge. F’ a bunch of stinking commies.

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Like “red” states, which I still refuse to acquiesce to.