Hoover personally announced or personally approved of all press announcements on all cases. No major federal case was closed until he, Hoover, closed it, and he did not do that until hereviewed each and every DAILY report from all FBI agents in charge of all areas. When he did, he instituted absolute control over the Bureau in that all agents had to report directly to him from all field offices.
When Hoover took over the Bureau in 1924, replacing William Burns, the Bureau was a corrupt instrument of the Harding administration, with FBI agents like Gaston Bullock Means conducting widespread blackmail and extortion from a corner office in the Bureau and Hoover had a hell of a time getting rid of Means and others. You must know how all this worked in those days. Edgar Hoover's grandiosity, that Purvis, the FBI agent in charge that night in Chicago, allowed the wrong man to be killed. It was not out of Melvin Purvis' grandiosity, but his expediency to appease J.
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