How the FBI secretly shapes movies and TV shows about Bureau

How the FBI secretly shapes movies and TV shows about Bureau

When the FBI’s first director, J. Edgar Hoover, saw that a new film from Paramount Pictures was going to be called “Federal Dick,” he was apoplectic. He called the title of the 1935 movie, about four G-men, “particularly obnoxious… most humiliating and repugnant,” and demanded it was changed before it ever appeared on a marquee. … Read more