Clyde A. Tolson - J. Edgar Hoover FBI Files - Download

CLYDE A. TOLSON - J. EDGAR HOOVER FBI FILES

2,141 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., covering Clyde Tolson and J. Edgar Hoover. Files are made up of approximately 800 pages of Associate Director Tolson's personnel records and copies of memoranda that were maintained in his office.

The files also include 1000 pages of memos written by J. Edgar Hoover from 1965 to 1972. Memos document Hoover's thoughts on various events during that period including campus demonstrations, civil disturbances, electronic surveillance, and Martin Luther King.

This set is most valuable for a collection of about 1000 pages of memos written by J. Edgar Hoover from 1965 to 1972. These memos, written before the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act, were suppose to be destroyed. However, copies were accidentally maintained in Associate Director Tolson's office files. These memos document the attitude of Hoover and the FBI on various events during that period including campus demonstrations, civil disturbances, electronic surveillance, and Martin Luther King Jr. Almost every social issue of the period garner reflection in this set.