TimewatchThe Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover
TV-PG
S12 • F4 24. Feb. 1993 50 Min.A new profile of the man who was director of the FBI for nearly 50 years. This investigation of Hoover's private life reveals that top gangsters had evidence of his secret, homosexual love life and used it to blackmail him. Tainted by ties to organised crime, Hoover turned a blind eye to the Mafia during the vital years of its growth.