J. EDGAR HOOVER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/05/1953 - HFSID 2987

J. EDGAR HOOVER
J. Edgar Hoover sends a typed letter saying thanks for the editorial.
Typed Letter Signed: "J. Edgar Hoover" as Director of the FBI, 1p, 8x10½. Washington D.C., 1953 February 5. To Mr. John J. McSweeney, Wikes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In full: "I want to take this opportunity to express to you my sincere thanks for the editorial entitled 'He Declined A Million,' which appeared in your newspaper on January 14, 1953. The very kind comments in this editorial are most gratifying to me, and I sincerely appreciate your expression of confidence in the manner in which I am administering the activities of the FBI. I trust that the efforts of all of us in this Bureau will continue to merit your approbation. Sincerely yours," J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972, born John Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC) served as the first Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. During his 48-year term, he restored order to the department and established the world's largest fingerprint file and the FBI Academy. The FBI fought organized crime in the Prohibition era. Under his direction, the FBI also infiltrated the American Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klanand other subversive organizations. It also conducted counterintelligence during WWII and the Cold War. By the 1970s, Hoover came under frequent public criticism for his authoritarian administration, but his power was so great that no President dared to remove him. Hoover made the FBI one of the world's most effective law enforcement agencies. He established its vast fingerprint file, crime laboratory and training academy. Fold creases through "J" and "g" of signature. Otherwise, fine condition.