1951 LETTER SIGNED BY J. EDGAR HOOVER / F.B.I. DIRECTOR LETTER HEAD

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1951 LETTER SIGNED BY J. EDGAR HOOVER / F.B.I. DIRECTOR LETTER HEAD:
$35.75

Original 1951 letter personally signed. very good condition with fold lines. includes envelope. a fine addition to your autograph collection. 3.00 shipping. i combine shipping. please wait for combined invoice. paypal within 3 days please. good luck. mike

John Edgar Hoover(January 1, 1895– May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the firstDirector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) of theUnited States. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation– the FBI\'s predecessor– in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for over 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been 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 as a centralizedfingerprintfile andforensiclaboratories.

Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretiveabuses of powerbegan to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI,[2]and to have used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[3]and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[4]Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten others, even sittingpresidents of the United States.