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Show D VID OFGRE I th FBI. So of course, I jumped at that chance. I could go to Washingt n . . 'd n year on my own up in Logan. We still lived on 1st South and 12th East in alt 11 I jumped at the chance and went back to Washington, D.C. Hoover was one of the very remarkable man - and I don't care what they say - I knew th guy personally, and he was one of the most amazing guys I'd ever known. What he said he meant. He had some strange quirks, you know. If you made a misidentification on a fingerprint you'd get a reprimand. If you made what they called a "Bum I.D.," "a bum ident," and said: "These are the prints that go to that guy." And if you did a bad one, he'd fire you. There was no (slapping his hands togeter)- it wasn't a slap on the hand. It was, "Okay, pack up your desk and head home." It was the same thing with the agents. The FBI agents were instructed that you never shot to kill someone you were taking as a prisoner because you cannot question a dead man. And, while I was working there, one agent was given two weeks without pay, time off, because this guy had been in an alley going down and swung around and started shooting at him. And so he "bought it." And Hoover gave him two weeks without pay for killing his potential ... So, you know> they have said a lot of things. And I had no question that all of these rumors, and stories about him being gay, or whatever, was a lot of horse pucky. And I knew what horse pucky was; we'd had a farm. But, anyway, I got half a dozen notices while I was working there from the draft board- 1-A., 1-A, 1-A. Well, Hoover told us that he would give us all deferments. Any of us that were working there, because we were essential to the war effort, he'd give us deferments. However, if you get a deferment there will never be, with the FBI, a promotion. There will never be a raise, as in cost of living. In other words boys, "If you want to stay out of the war, this ain't the place to do it, because you're set for your ... " |
