Coming out of the "Crane Club", John was in a rather bad mood. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info was beaten for a long time for no reason, it was too aggrieved.

As soon as he got home, John called and scolded Reilly. Then, with a grunt, he locked himself in his study, wondering how to get the initiative back from Hoover. Being beaten passively all the time, that's not his style.

All along, John has maintained enough respect and courtesy to Hoover, but he just doesn't want to get into trouble, and he is not really afraid of the other party.

"This damn gay! Don't say I've never helped Donovan fight you, even if I did stand on Donovan's side, so what. I don't have the handle in your hands, I really think I'm a bully. John vented his frustration in his heart as he thought about how to deal with Hoover.

It's only 1940, the FBI has only been established for five years, and Hoover's power is far from at its peak. If John had coaxed him now, he would not have survived for the next few decades.

To be honest, the biggest reason why John had the courage to argue with Hoover was because it was 1940. Hoover had not yet had time to establish himself as the "ultimate keeper of secrets" in the minds of the American people.

In John's view, the key to Hoover's future political power, which is more powerful than the president, is not those so-called "secret files", but the way he handles them. Knowing how to keep and exploit those secrets was the real reason for Hoover's success.

Hoover never revealed the specific contents of any "secret files" to outsiders, and for nearly half a century, not a single word of these secrets kept by Hoover was leaked. In fact, the documents are kept so classified that even the FBI itself is not sure if they really exist.

Hoover would only let the parties know they had their secrets in their hands when necessary. It is a silent intimidation to those who have the handle in his hands, and it is absolutely effective as long as the news has not yet been known to the public.

But Hoover was not content to control only those who had the handle in his hands. Next, he used these "secrets" to play a successful psychological game. Hoover used various means to convince the outside world that he had many secrets, but he never let people know what secrets he had.

In this way, his deterrent power is much larger. Even the president didn't dare fire him, because none of them knew what Hoover knew. And when the media and the public generally believe that Hoover has a lot of ulterior political secrets, even if there is no black material of his opponent, he can make up some of them, anyway, the public has already recognized Hoover's golden signboard.

Interestingly, those who were really caught by Hoover in history usually chose to cooperate with him and be safe and sound. And those who dare to confront Hoover because they did not have the handle in the hands of Hoover are often ruined by the rumors he unleashed.

At the beginning, Donovan, who had made great contributions to the victory in World War II, wanted to be the boss of the American intelligence community. Hoover created a fake document that spread rumors that Donovan wanted to turn the United States into a police state and the Strategic Intelligence Agency into the Gestapo of the United States.

As a result, no matter how much Donovan defended it, the people did not believe it. He and his hundreds of thousands of subordinates didn't even have time to receive the "World War II Victory Medal" before the Strategic Intelligence Agency was disbanded. In the end, Donovan, a hero of two world wars, only managed to get the post of ambassador to Thailand.

It seems that in history, Hoover's move has only missed once on the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King. At that time, he called Martin Luther King Jr. and threatened to release the recording of the phone call of the other party's extramarital affair to the media if he did not renounce receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

As a result, Martin Luther King Jr. ignored him, and Hoover literally sent the recordings to multiple media outlets. But this time, the media unanimously refused to publish the contents of the tape. They argued that personal emotional issues were not enough to erase Martin Luther King's contributions to the cause of civil rights. On the contrary, it is Hoover's use of wiretapping private phone calls to blackmail the other party is disgusting.

John certainly doesn't think his charisma can be compared to Martin Luther King. Between him and Hoover, the media and the public probably still believe in Hoover.

Therefore, he had to find a way to counter Hoover before he made himself the "ultimate keeper of secrets" in the United States.

In fact, the most fundamental and radical solution is to deny the FBI the right to "spy on and wiretap persons they deem suspicious" in wartime. This privilege was the cornerstone of Hoover's future ownership.

But it was Roosevelt himself who gave Hoover this right. At first, Roosevelt only wanted to use Hoover to stabilize the social order in the country and eliminate the factors of instability. But later, he also began to use Hoover's eavesdropping intelligence against some political opponents.

This greatly boosted Hoover's arrogance. By the end of World War II, Hoover was so arrogant that he didn't even let go of the White House. Because First Lady Eleanor had dealings with some civil rights activists, Hoover even tapped her phone. Roosevelt was so angry with this that he once wanted to take down Hoover, but before he could do it, he died first.

John thought it might be a good idea to push for legislation that would limit law enforcement surveillance wiretapping. At least that would make it impossible for Hoover to be as blatant as later generations.

But on second thought, it's not safe to do so, and it may be overestimating the ethics of politicians. In later generations, the United States had strict legal restrictions in this regard, and didn't Bush Jr. even create a "prism door."

There is another way, although the pattern is not high, but it is more direct and effective. That is to treat others in their own way. Can Hoover grab someone else's handle, but others can't grab Hoover's handle?

To be honest, Hoover is a controversial figure in American history, and there are really a lot of various "black materials" about him on the Internet in later generations. The most lethal of all was Hoover's homosexual and transvestite tendencies.

Historically, the American mafia has exploited this quite successfully. In 1957, Mafia Mayer Lansky sent someone to secretly photograph Hoover attending a "gay party." As a result of these materials, the FBI did not take a substantive purge of the mafia for decades.

The veteran American mafia leader Kamain Lompadozzi once said: "Edgar Hoover is in the palm of our hands." There is no need for us to be afraid of him. ”

It's interesting to think that Hoover had countless political scandals in his hands and became a dangerous figure in the eyes of presidents and congressmen. And his own scandal was caught in the hands of others. The dignified director of the FBI is just a gay man in the mafia.

However, how can Hoover's "black material" get his hands on it? This is a very real problem.