Emerging Threats

How Hoover's FBI 'deliverymen' monitored Norman Mailer for 15 years

Nov. 15, 2008
The notoriously paranoid FBI director J Edgar Hoover had plenty on his plate in summer 1962 as he fretted about keeping America safe from its enemies real and perceived.
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