Why did J. Edgar Hoover hide the OES data?
This question is fairly straightforward to answer. Hoover hid the OES data because he realized that they showed nothing and would thereby reflect badly on his organization in the eyes of the majority of the populace who didn’t understand the legitimate limitations of OES. Hindsight has proved him right. The one person who tried to work with the data, George Michael Evica, totally misinterpreted them. His book, And We Are All Mortal, suffers to the extent that he based it on these data. Why did Hoover hide the NAA data? Hoover’s actions with respect to the NAA data are harder to understand, and I don’t pretend to. At one level, he was just doing the same as for the OES data, keeping secret something he wasn’t sure would make his FBI look stellar. But something else is going on here, for the FBI had essentially cracked the mystery of the NAA datain spite of what Guinn said, they knew of the two groups of fragments and must have realized what they probably meant. It is possible, however,
