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at H.’s house. Former FBI clerk Joe Diamond told of the destruction of documents, and congressional investigators Mark Gittenstein and Robert Fink described the inquiry into the fate of H.’s files. Former Newsweek reporter Anthony Marro was interviewed about the FBI’s reported removal of documents after Tolson’s death. Hunt’s reported involvement in assassination plots is in Jim Hougan’s book, Secret Agenda, NY, Morrow, 1978, p. 5, and in Life, Mar. 1990. The numerous burglaries suspected to be linked to the Watergate crew are listed in ‘The Unsolved Break-Ins,’ by Robert Fink, in Rolling Stone, Oct. 10, 1974. A document on ‘possible burglaries’ at H.’s home is in Director FBI to Special Prosecution force, DJ, Nov. 28, 1973, NA. Roy Cohn recalled his last meeting with H. in Esquire, Nov. 1972. Jack Anderson’s testimony on FBI snooping is in Hearings, Subcttee. of Cttee. on Gov’t Operations, 92 Cong., 2nd Sess., May 1, 1972, pp. 2437ff. N.’s reported call to H. on the last night is in notes of a conversation with Helen Gandy by Ladislas Farago, Farago Collection, Mugar Library, Univ. of Boston. H.’s death certificate, no. 72–03405, is at HSF8. Nixon’s response to the news was described by John Ehrlichman to the author, but see also, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, by Curt Gentry (see Bibliography), p. 28. Haldeman’s note on ‘skeletons,’ dated 9:15 A.M., May 2, 1972, is in WHSF, NP. Richard Kleindienst’s testimony on action after H.’s death was Dec. 1, 1975 in DES, p. 2, and DES – with the draft staff report obtained by the author – is the principle source. Mark Felt’s ‘dead horse’ remark is cited in the DES staff report.

Epilogue

Former Asst. Directors Cartha DeLoach and Mark Felt, Neil Welch, race official Bill Koras, Dr Edward Elson, nephew Fred Robinette, goddaughter Marianita Mattusch, neighbor Anthony Calomaris, cemetery staff Ethel Robertson, Lee Jenney and Audrey Jones discussed H.’s burial and events following his death. Godson J. Edgar Nichols described visits to the grave, and niece Dorothy Davy recalled Annie Hoover’s social aspirations. Psychiatrist Dr Harold Lief and psychologists Dr John Money and Capt. Gaye Humphreys offered opinions on H.’s personality. Documents used included J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Tributes in the Congress, Washington, DC, US Govt. Printing Office, 1974, and the Masons’ Tribute of Admiration and Affection, Oct. 1, 1972, Scottish Rite Temple. The Dean-Nixon exchange is in Blind Ambition, by John Dean, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1976, p. 265, citing Watergate tapes, Mar. 13, 1973, but (for variant) cf. submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to Hse. Judiciary Cttee., Mar. 13, 1973, p. 122. Doubt about Tolson’s ‘mental competency’ is in a report by investigator Philip Haire, Jul. 9, 1973, WAC, NA. Medical texts used were ‘Some Aspects of the Development of Authority,’ Journal of Analytic Psychology, Jul. 1977 and (on Himmler) The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, London, Pelican, 1987, pp. 398ff. H.’s comments on pornography were in This Week, Aug. 25, 1957 (reprinted for circulation by FBI), H. testimony Hse. Appropriations Subcttee., Jan. 30, 1957, p. 203, American Legion magazine, May 1961, and Inside the FBI, by Norman Ollestad (see Bibliography), p. 62. The closing quote by Walter Mondale is from IC6, p. 64.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES

BI Bureau of Investigation document

CP Cummings Papers

CR Congressional Record

D The Director, by Ovid Demaris, New York, Harper’s Magazine Press, 1975

DES Inquiry into the Destruction of Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s Files and FBI Recordkeeping, Hearings, House Government Information and Individual Rights Subcommittee, 1975

DJ Department of Justice

EL Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

EPUA Morris Ernst Papers, University of Texas at Austin

ER Eleanor Roosevelt

F From the Secret Files of I. Edgar Hoover, edited by Athan Theoharis, Chicago, Ivan Dee, 1991

FBI FBI document number

FDRL Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

GC Bearing the Cross, by David Garrow, New York, William Morrow, 1986

GF The