J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hooverwas the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigationof the United States. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972, aged 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLaw Enforcement Officer
Date of Birth1 January 1895
CountryUnited States of America
J. Edgar Hoover quotes about
There is something addictive about secrets.
I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
Justice is merely incidental to law and order.