BEHIND THE HOOVER STORY.(Main)

Byline: William F. Buckley

T wo magazines currently being distributed will tell you that 1) J. Edgar Hoover was a roaring homosexual, and that 2) J. Edgar Hoover was nothing of the sort; indeed, that allegations to the contrary are based "upon no evidence whatsoever."

The accusations against Hoover are published in Vanity Fair magazine. They are excerpts from a book by Anthony Summers.

The Summers excerpts allege a great deal more than that Hoover was gay. The book speaks of photographs owned by members of the Mafia, prominent among them Meyer Lansky, who bought for himself and his friends special immunities by threatening to expose Hoover. They then quote a sometime wife of Lewis Rosenstiel, a wealthy …