Chapter 971 The Legendary Hoover

Edgar Hoover, a legendary figure who created American history and the myth of the FBI.

In 1924, Hoover, who was then a young lawyer in the Justice Department, was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation, the predecessor of the FBI. As a result, he sat in this position for half a century at once.

In his career, the United States has changed 8 presidents and 16 attorneys general, but the FBI director has always been named J? Edgar? Hoover. He wielded powers that no FBI leader since then could surpass.

And now, at a time when Hoover's personal prestige is growing, and in this eventful time, Hoover must use the FBI to help the president. Those political dissidents and political activists are his main targets, and he wants to maintain stability in the United States.

No one knew that he was also collecting secret files on political leaders and using illegal means to gather evidence.

Hoover knew how to keep secrets, and that was the real reason for his success. Not only did he know the secrets, but no one knew exactly which ones he knew. So, no president dared to fire Hoover, because no president knew exactly what Hoover knew. This is the biggest intimidation for the president.

And now, Hoover is doing well in his position.

The famous CIA in later generations has not yet been established, but it has a predecessor called the United States Intelligence and Coordination Office. In later generations, the CIA was responsible for external affairs, and the FBI was responsible for internal affairs. Now, the FBI has more tasks, and he has a lot of espionage work.

Originally, it was not a big problem for him to clear a site as a secret weapons development base. However, when there was a conflict with the local people, he did not respond immediately, but reported it to Roosevelt president.

Roosevelt's brows also wrinkled. This riot seemed too surprising. There was a sword in it, pointing directly at him!

The attack on Pearl Harbor was actually a conspiracy? Roosevelt had realized the problem: "Hoover, you say, are there any German spies who are deliberately making trouble?"

This method looks familiar! Roosevelt immediately thought of the Germans. It was strange that he did not guess that the islanders did it.

In Roosevelt's mind, the island country was not regarded as an enemy at all. He had always regarded Germany as the greatest threat, and now it seems that this is the case.

"Mr. President, what we need to do now is to pacify this riot as soon as possible. If we hunt down German spies among them, it will only spread the riot. Once this kind of rhetoric emerges across the country, it will be difficult for us to end it."

Roosevelt's brow wrinkled deeper, he already knew what Hoover really meant.

Whether this is a conspiracy or not, only a few people know, among these people, Hoover is not included, but now, with a tone like Hoover, it is obvious that he already knows something, this guy is simply a monster!

"Then what do we do?" Roosevelt asked.

"This incident was caused by the relocation of the aborigines in Oak Ridge. I think we can suspend the relocation and let them stay there, so that the conflict will be much smaller. We will secretly investigate the local residents and find the saboteurs secretly." Hoover said: "Let this thing calm down temporarily, but it can't continue to spread. On a national scale, we must also pay attention to this trend and must not expand."

Let things calm down slowly and stop the relocation. This is what Hoover meant. In short, Hoover is unwilling to take responsibility. Once a fierce conflict is triggered, the FBI will be responsible. Maybe Hoover will step down , he wouldn't put himself in that situation.

"However, there will be our secret weapons research base." Roosevelt said.

"How secret? We've investigated, and none of the residents there have relocated in recent years. They're all long-term residents. It's just a small, remote place," Hoover said.

Hoover's words seem to be asking Roosevelt, why do you keep this kind of thing from me, what kind of weapons development base is it?

So Roosevelt could only remain silent. This matter, indeed, has exceeded the authority of the FBI, and he should not have known.

After a long time, Roosevelt finally said: "Okay, then suspend the relocation, but the confidentiality work must be done well, and the military is responsible for the confidentiality affairs."

Hoover also seemed to be relieved: "This is the best, then I will go first, by the way, Mr. President, remind you, we better not let the families of the victims have too many questions about us, we There should be a way to divert their attention."

Looking at the back of Hoover leaving, Roosevelt felt that he had the urge to hit people. This guy is getting more and more arrogant!

No way, the Hoover administration has been running for too long. In the past ten years, Hoover has obtained a lot of evidence, and even Roosevelt has always suspected that Hoover still has a photo of his wife.

It was taken by my wife when she was young. If this photo is leaked, Roosevelt will be finished. The people will not accept a president with a dissolute wife. The previous image of being close to the people will be destroyed.

The most frightening thing is that Roosevelt could not confirm this matter. Hoover's method was really too high.

Don't think about this, Roosevelt thought about what Hoover said just now, it's better to divert people's attention?

How can the families of the victims be reinvigorated? Roosevelt had vaguely thought of something.

"Everyone, now, I want to announce a decision." Roosevelt said to the people around him: "The island country dares to attack us in Hawaii, and we have to make the island country pay the price! I decided to organize a bombing of the mainland of the island country immediately, yes, that is Bomb Tokyo, the capital of the island nation!"

As soon as Roosevelt's words came out, everyone present was stunned, bombing Tokyo?

how can that be! The latest B-29 bomber developed by the United States is not enough to bomb Tokyo directly. After all, the distance from the island country is too far.

If the military bases such as the Mariana Islands and Iwo Jima are occupied, it is similar. Now, at most, we can only start from the Huaxia base. If the distance is too far, we must reduce the amount of bombs to carry fuel.

Moreover, the B-29 has not yet solved the problem of engine overheating, and the flight distance is too long, and the engine is likely to catch fire.

"If we could take the bomber off the carrier, that's still possible," Marshall said. "I've heard that we have an all-purpose bomber with a short takeoff roll."

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet still had the aircraft carrier Saratoga. Let the aircraft carrier carry bombers close to the mainland of the island country for bombing. This plan should not be difficult to realize.