The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover
1993
57 minutes
Overview
For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades. The American Mafia, it is asserted, had damaging evidence about Hoover's sex life and they knew about his homosexuality.
Top Cast
Walter Mondale
Self
G. Gordon Liddy
Self
Cartha DeLoach
Self - Former FBI Asst. Director
Richard Gid Powers
Self