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Colby on H.’s claim that Tolson shot Dillinger. ‘FBI Summaries of Interesting Cases,’ preserved in the private collection of a former Assistant Director’s family, were useful on the Thirties’ Bandits, as was the Scanlon’s May 1970 on Kathryn Kelly. H.’s comments on women and crime were drawn from an undated NYT clip of 1932, Hearst’s Progress of Jun. 1939, and Secret Intelligence Agent, by Montgomery Hyde, London, Constable, 1982, p. 242. The suggestion that agents mutinied at Little Bohemia is in a memo to DeLoach, May 11, 1966, FBI 948–350. The suggestion that the real Dillinger survived was elaborated in Dillinger Dossier, by Jay Robert Nash, Highland Park, IL, December Press, 1983.

Chapter 8

Interviews included Katherine Miller, Betty Kelly, Jo-Ann Weiss, former Assistant Directors Cartha DeLoach, Mark Felt, and Charles Bates, former agents Ken Clawson, Neil Welch, John O’Beirne, John Doyle, Harry Whidbee, Pete Pitchess, Joseph Schott, and Leo McClairen, and hotelier Arthur Forbes, on Clyde Tolson. Harvey’s employees Pooch Miller, Charles Harvinson, George Dunson, and Aaron Shainus and H.’s reporter friend Walter Trohan described H.’s use of the restaurant. Jokes about H. and Tolson were gleaned from H.’s nephew Fred Robinette, Julia Cameron, and Jan Wenner. The Corcoran episode was described by Joseph Shimon, and additional information supplied by Thomas Corcoran, Betty Corcoran, James G. C. Corcoran II, and James Dowd. H.’s relationship with Winchell was described by Herman Klurfeld and Curly Harris, and his patronage of the Stork Club by Guy Hottel, Chandler Brossard, Anita Colby, and Luisa Stuart. The H./Tolson ‘tiff’ was reported by William Turner. Documentary sources used included: the H./Tolson correspondence in TSF & HSF; WH, Aug. 28, 1933 and FBI file 62–68973 on Ray Tucker; an H. note and Nichols to H., Jan. 21, 1938, FBI 62–320–1, and Inquisition in Eden, by Alvah Bessie, NY, Macmillan, 1965, p. 194 on H.’s use of perfume. The Joe Pasternak interview was kindly supplied by Charles Higham, and Ethel Merman’s comment appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1978.

Chapter 9

Interviews included Curtis Lynum, quoting Raymond Suran on Tolson being jilted, Edna Daulyton, former agents Joe Wickman and Jim Barrow, and acquaintance Alvin Malnik on H.’s guilt about his mother, nephew Fred Robinette, Ginger Rogers, Effie Cain, Leo McClairen, Walter Trohan, Richard Auerbach, and Guy Hottel on Lela Rogers. Joan, Richard, and Manee Thompson, and Katherine Porter were interviewed about Frances Marion. Charles Harvinson, John Howard, Joseph Schott, Joseph Griffin, and Arthur and Mara Forbes discussed Dorothy Lamour. Walter Trohan and Beatrice Berle recalled the Sumner Welles episode, and David Wise reported a conversation with Assistant AG James Rowe. Former agent Joe Wickman spoke of H.’s standing order about allegations of homosexuality. Frank Kameny, Harry Hay, and Dan Simenovsky discussed the Mattachine Society, and Dr Marshall Ruffin’s treatment of H. was described by his wife, Monteen – with additional information supplied by Dr Hill Carter, Jack Anderson, and Dr Robert Sjogren. William Stutz recalled delivering flowers for H. The depositions of Hillory Tolson and Dorothy Skillman, TWF, were useful on Tolson’s family life. Dorothy Lamour wrote to the author, who made use of Lamour’s book, My Side of the Road, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1980. Harold Ickes’ unpub. diaries, LC, were a valuable source on the Welles affair, and the information on John Monroe was gleaned from FBI documents kindly supplied by Dan Simenovsky.

Chapter 10

Interviews included: former agent C. W. Toulme on the arrest of Alvin Karpis, J. Edgar Nichols on his father, former agent Joseph Purvis on H. and newspapers, Jeremiah O’Leary on his relations with the FBI, and Karl Hess, Fletcher Knebel and Nancy Wechsler on interference with the press. Roland Evans, Mrs Stewart Alsop, and Mrs E. Chubb discussed Joseph Alsop, and the Jack Nelson episode was described by Nelson himself, and David Kraslow. Former Assistant Directors Charles