{"id":520750,"date":"2022-12-04T04:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T01:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-j-edgar-hoover-fbi-really-thought-about-john-lindsay\/"},"modified":"2022-12-04T04:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T01:14:48","slug":"what-j-edgar-hoover-fbi-really-thought-about-john-lindsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-j-edgar-hoover-fbi-really-thought-about-john-lindsay\/","title":{"rendered":"#What J. Edgar Hoover, FBI really thought about John Lindsay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b180c14749\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b180c14749\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-j-edgar-hoover-fbi-really-thought-about-john-lindsay\/#%E2%80%9CWhat_J_Edgar_Hoover_FBI_really_thought_about_John_Lindsay%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;What J. Edgar Hoover, FBI really thought about John Lindsay&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhat_J_Edgar_Hoover_FBI_really_thought_about_John_Lindsay%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;What J. Edgar Hoover, FBI really thought about John Lindsay&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>In 1955, John Lindsay was a rising star at the US Department of Justice and in good graces with then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>But over the next decade and a half, the charismatic, Kennedy-esque New York City mayor\u2019s bromance with the larger-than-life G-man soured right up until Hoover\u2019s 1972 death, according to a review of 96 pages of once-classified FBI files obtained by The Post under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> to many!\u201d cheered Hoover in a gleeful note scribbled at the bottom of a 1970 press clip from the now-defunct Washington Evening Star, reporting Lindsay would not seek re-election as NYC mayor in 1973.    <\/p>\n<p>The files not only cover the longtime liberal Republican\u2019s time working for the DOJ in the mid 1950s, but also his time as Congressman from 1959 through 1965, his tumultuous tenure as mayor of a cash-str<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed, crime-ridden New York from 1966 through 1973, and his failed 1972 presidential bid after switching to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/mayor-john-lindsay-11-1.jpg?w=686\" alt=\"John Lindsay\" class=\"wp-image-24796987\" width=\"618\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/mayor-john-lindsay-11-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1236 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/mayor-john-lindsay-11-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=926 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/mayor-john-lindsay-11-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/mayor-john-lindsay-11-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=309 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/mayor-john-lindsay-11-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>In 1955, John Lindsay was a rising star at the US Department of Justice.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Santi Visalli<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hoover kept an eye out for \u201ccommunist\u201d and \u201cun-American\u201d activities surrounding the  American civil rights champion and his political appointees, according to the files. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently Mayor\u2019s John Lindsay of New York (as reported by Paul Harvey on national radio) stated \u2018the real heroes of [Vietnam War] are those who dodge the draft and protest\u2019 etc.,\u201d wrote one person to Hoover in May 1970, the day after the infamous massacre of antiwar demonstrators at Kent State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, how in the name of freedom can a leader of this stature speak such despicably pro-Vietcong, pro-flag-burning, pot-smoking words and retain his position with scarcely anything said in refutation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early in his career, Lindsay, a lawyer who also served as a lieutenant in the US Navy during World War II, was so well thought of by the feds that he had rare access to Hoover. <\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-42.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-42.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-42.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-42.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-42.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-42.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    Excerpts from the J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.                             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=468\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=936 936w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=702 702w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=468 468w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=234 234w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    Excerpts from the J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.                             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=667\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1334 1334w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1001 1000w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=667 667w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=334 333w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    Excerpts from the J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.                             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"452\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-82.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=452\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-82.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=904 904w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-82.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=678 678w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-82.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=452 452w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-82.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=226 226w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/FBI-Lindsey-3-82.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    Excerpts from the J. Edgar Hoover FBI files regarding John Lindsay.                             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 1955, while working as an executive assistant to the US Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a>, he scored a private tour of the FBI\u2019s headquarters in Washington DC that included a meet and greet with Hoover for Lindsay, his wife Mary, and some female friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now have a party of four (count em*) beautiful girls accompanying me on the tour at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow \u2013 a blonde, two brunettes, and a chestnut,\u201d wrote Lindsay in a typed memo to Hoover dated Feb. 24, 1955, that underlined the word \u201cfour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are all members of the J. Edgar Hoover fan club so I hope you\u2019ll be free for one minute to say hello (I\u2019m willing to share!).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will see them,\u201d wrote Hoover on the same memo, approving the visit by signing his name as \u201cH.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-05.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"John Lindsay.\" class=\"wp-image-24888525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>John Lindsay campaigns for mayor in the streets of New York City on Oct. 13, 1965.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">New York Post Archives<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1005\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-10.jpg?w=1005\" alt=\"John Lindsay.\" class=\"wp-image-24888532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1507 1507w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1005 1005w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=502 502w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\"\/><figcaption>John Lindsay laughs with journalists and his entourage as he walks down 5th Avenue during the St Patrick\u2019s Day Parade in 1967.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"813\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-04.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"John Lindsay stops on his Sunday morning bicycle tour of Miami's coconut Grove to shake hands with a potential voter.\" class=\"wp-image-24888537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mayor-john-lindsay-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>John Lindsay stops on his Sunday morning bicycle tour of Miami\u2019s Coconut Grove to shake hands with a potential voter in 1975.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">New York Post Archives<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The released files offer no examples of the feds investigating Lindsay for wrongdoing, but they do include a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of other letters from people whose names were redacted accusing the pol of being unfit for office or unpatriotic for opposing the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we to permit what I consider one of the most dangerous men in our country to take it over,\u201d said one person ripping Lindsay\u2019s presidential campaign in an Oct. 16, 1971 letter to then-US Sen. Bob Dole and cc\u2019ed to Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI director also received a 1969 letter from a Hoover loyalist ripping \u201cpretty boy\u201d Lindsay for \u201clust[ing]\u201d the White House \u201cwith the vim and vigor of a Kennedy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hoover noted in official records that she was backing then-Conservative Democratic Comptroller Mario Procaccino for mayor and was on his \u201cSpecial Correspondents List\u201d\u2014a term then used to refer to key Hoover allies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"President Richard Nixon and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    President Richard Nixon and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.                               <\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><br \/>\n                                                    <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/j-edgar-hoover-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"J. Edgar Hoover, talked with newsmen after appearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/j-edgar-hoover-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/j-edgar-hoover-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/j-edgar-hoover-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/j-edgar-hoover-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/j-edgar-hoover-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover talked with reporters after appearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.                             <\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><br \/>\n                                                    <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=451\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=902 902w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=676 676w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=451 451w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=225 225w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/j-edgar-hoover-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    Hoover kept an eye out for &#8220;communist&#8221; and &#8220;un-American&#8221; activities surrounding the  American civil rights champion and his political appointees.                               <\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><br \/>\n                                                    <\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The FBI felt Lindsay was too self-serving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A March 1967 interoffice memo signed by FBI agent R.E. Wick accuses Lindsay of being \u201chighly unethical,\u201d alleging he broke an embargo agreement with the feds over the release of national crime statistics for political purposes. In a speech before the NYPD\u2019s Holy Name Society, the then-mayor announced crime was up 11 percent nationwide \u2014 yet \u201cthe city was below that figure,\u201d wrote Wick.<\/p>\n<p>The files also note a series of threats allegedly made on Lindsay\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>In August 1967, Hoover said in a letter to the US Secret Service that a woman had been arrested by the NYPD and charged with possessing a firearm and plotting to \u201cassassinate\u201d Lindsay for a $20,000 bounty. <\/p>\n<p>Hoover also noted the arrest was reported by local <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> and that the feds\u2019 earlier investigations into the same woman \u2014 whose name was redacted \u2014 found she may have been a member of the \u201cUniformed Communist Police\u201d and a \u201cTito Communist\u201d loyal to Josip Broz Tito, then-president of the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>Sid Davidoff, a longtime lobbyist who was part of Lindsay\u2019s inner circle when he was mayor, told The Post he\u2019s \u201cnot surprised\u201d Hoover \u201ckept a file\u201d on his ex-boss, who passed away in 2000.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the first major Republican to come out against the [Vietnam] War,\u201d said Davidoff, who once famously earned a spot in 1972 on then-President <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2018\/08\/17\/nixon-had-an-enemies-list-now-so-does-trump\/\">Richard Nixon\u2019s Top 20 \u201cEnemies List.\u201d<\/a>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/03\/what-j-edgar-hoover-fbi-really-thought-about-john-lindsay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What J. Edgar Hoover, FBI really thought about John Lindsay&#8221; In 1955, John Lindsay was a rising star at the US Department of Justice and in good graces with then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. 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