s FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] DeLoach, Cartha D. [Fine] [Hardcover]

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Fine unread condition blue boards/black cloth spine/copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Biographical Note; Index and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. ""The FBI is the world's most acclaimed law enforcement agency and one often cloaked in an aura of mystery and intrigue. J. Edgar Hoover, serving as Director of the FBI for over five decades, has left a profound and lasting legacy on this most celebrated institution. Only the few who were part of J. Edgar Hoover's inner circle know the truth about his controversial years of authoritarian rule and the organization's inner secrets. Deke DeLoach, author of Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant, was privy to Hoover's thoughts and actions during the most tumultuous years of the FBI. Throughout the '60s, Deke DeLoach was the number three man in the Bureau - outranked only by Hoover and Clyde Tolson - and one of Hoover's most trusted deputies. For this reason, his precise, highly readable narrative is the most authentic account ever written of the FBI. Hoover's FBI answers the questions that have plagued modern history most - the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI crusades against organized crime and the Communist party, Hoover's disputed sexual orientation, and the ""secret files"" Hoover allegedly kept to blackmail hostile members of Congress. DeLoach paints a portrait of Hoover different from any yet revealed - and one that will ring true to objective readers, while disappointing both rabid Hoover haters and uncritical Hoover worshippers. DeLoach reveals the most gripping pursuits - both flattering and unflattering - of the Bureau itself: How the FBI, through Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, had the court obtain the truth regarding wiretapping and microphone usage in a major case; How the FBI confirmed the truth about the Valachi papers; How the agents captured James Earl Ray, and How they cracked the famous ""buried alive"" kidnapping case. Hoover's FBI offers dramatic insights into the FBI - how it worked under Hoover's rule and how it must work in any era. It sets the record straight about J. Edgar Hoover once and for all and provides a gripping narrative of a modern government agency caught on a tightrope between presidential administrations and the limits of the law."" - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.