Turner, William W. Hoover's FBI. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993.
344 pages. Revised and updated from the 1970 edition by Sherbourne Press,
which also appeared as a Dell paperback.
From 1951-1961, William W. Turner was an FBI agent, until he was
fired for refusing to roll over in the face of J. Edgar Hoover's eccentric
megalomania. Turner hired superlawyer Edward Bennett Williams and sued the
FBI; he lost, but did manage to get anti-Hoover testimony by other agents
into the record. By 1968, Turner was working on the JFK assassination for
the celebrated muckraking magazine Ramparts, and was number three on
Hoover's personal COINTELPRO enemies list. That year Turner wrote The Police
Establishment, and after this book appeared in 1970, he wrote several others
that are indexed in NameBase: Power on the Right, The Assassination of
Robert F. Kennedy (with John Christian), and The Fish is Red (with Warren
Hinckle, about the CIA and anti-Castro Cubans).
What's amazing, 26 years after Hoover's death, is that this book was
not only the first, but still ranks as one of the best, among the dozens of
books that have since appeared on this topic. Everything anyone needed to
know about Hoover was available while he was still in power, for the price
of a Dell paperback, and before the Freedom of Information Act started
churning out documents. It's a brutal reminder that even when the facts
are indisputable, most people still find it convenient to ignore them.
ISBN 1-56025-063-1
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