Did the FBI use civilian quasi-agents during World War II?
Secrets remain secret or at best muddled/muddied – – – that said one of my favorites as reported by two or three books was that J Edgar Hoover recruited several black males to make themselves ‘available’ to diplomat Summer Welles in order to hurt FDR’s administration, the best source that I can give is noted below but the books that I have read are blunt, that the incident was not merely reported by the FBI but orchestrated by Hoover who supposedly knew all about ‘closet cases.’ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2… “”————he actually begins the book by putting his ugliest cards on the table – relating more or less in full what is known of an episode that allegedly took place on a train carrying a presidential delegation back to Washington from the funeral of House Speaker William Bankhead in 1940. On that occasion, Welles, drunk and under the influence of barbiturates, supposedl
