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Edgar Hoover Discusses Crime and Criminals." New York Times, February 13, 1938.

1938, April
Photo, Hoover and Tolson. on Channel 9 - detail extensive contacts between Hoover and top crime figures.

Some of the relations were friendly, stemming from the FBI director's penchant for betting on horse races - many allegedly fixed by mobsters to ensure that Hoover won - and his love of high living, some of it financed by the mob.

But there was a stick along with these carrots, and that was compromising photos of homosexual activity between Hoover and longtime aide Clyde Tolson that allegedly were obtained by Lansky and mobster Frank Costello.

Hoover, as FBI chief, made a habit of squirreling away information about the sexual lives of Washington's power elite, including John and Robert Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt and others, according to a number of biographers.

Hoover, who headed the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, was rumored to be homosexual as long ago as the 1930s.

Edgar Hoover publishes Persons in Hiding (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1938).

It continued, as far as we know, through 1977. Hoover" and even courted -- albeit uncomfortably -- actress Ginger Rogers' mother and actress Dorothy Lamour.

Hoover's neuroses were likely rooted in childhood: He was ashamed of his mentally ill father and was dependent on his morally righteous mother, Annie, well into middle age.

Writing credits: J. Edgar Hoover (book "Persons in Hiding") William R. Lipman, (screenplay) and Horace McCoy (screenplay).

Accessed September 2, 2015 from: IMDB. Date Photographed: July 12, 1936.

1936, August 18
Photo, Hoover and Tolson: Caption: J. Edgar Hoover, Chief G-Man (right) and his right-hand man, Clyde Tolson, snapped at ringside as they attended the Louis-Sharkey fight, at the Yankee Stadium in New York City, August 18.

Corbis Images: Stock Photo ID: U360070ACME.

Summers collaborated with historians and conducted 800 interviews for the book, including nieces and those who were young enough at the time to have known the man personally.

"We were able to get a close view of the man as an individual and as a human being -- as close as anybody who had not been afraid of him since he died," said Summers.

With interest in the Eastwood film, publishers in the U.S.

and in Britain are issuing a remake of the book.

One medical expert told Summers that Hoover was "strongly predominant homosexual orientation" and another categorized him as a "bisexual with failed heterosexuality."

Hoover often suppressed his urges, but would break out in lapses that could have destroyed him -- alleged orgies in New York City hotels and affairs with teenage boys in a limousine, according to interviews conducted by Summers.

"He was a sadly repressed individual, but most people, even J.

Edgar Hoover, let go on occasion," he said.