J. Edgar Hoover

Hoover Worried 'Lice-Covered Ferret' Journalist Would Report He Was Gay

Ryan J. Reilly | November 7, 2011, 10:51AM

Former FBI officials are worried that a new film is going to leave people thinking that former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was gay. Decades ago, Hoover himself worried a Pulitzer prize winning journalist would report it.

The Los Angeles Times got a hold of the FBI file on former reporter Jack Nelson through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, revealing that Hoover was pretty panicked that Nelson was going to report he was "homosexual."

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