TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charles,Douglas M.
TI  - Hoover's war on gays: exposing the FBI's "sex deviates" program 
SN  - 9780700621194 (hardback)
AV  - HV8144.F43 C4285 2015
U1  - 363.25/9536 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lawrence, Kansas
PB  - University Press of Kansas
KW  - United States
KW  - Federal Bureau of Investigation
KW  - History
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Government policy
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Gays
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - Internal security
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Based on extensive research of primary sources and relentless FOIA requests, Charles provides the first comprehensive history of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's systematic (some would say obsessive) targeting, investigation, and harassment of homosexuals for the half century that began in the1930s. One of Charles's signal achievements is to piece together the procedures, purposes, and contents of Hoover's "Sex Deviate File" encompassing an estimated 99 cubic feet, or more than 330,000 pages, but which was destroyed by the FBI in the late 1970s"--
ER  -