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![J. Edgar Hoover's lieutenant was not impressed with the FBI Director's "X-Files" cameo](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/05/05/Untitled.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
J. Edgar Hoover’s lieutenant was not impressed with the FBI Director’s “X-Files” cameo
Recently, in response to Emma Best’s 2017 FOIA request for files on former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Associate Director Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, the FBI released an additional 137 pages. As fellow MuckRock user Paul Galante was quick to point out, those new pages include a 1998 letter by DeLoach to one of the producers of the “X-Files,” offering his thoughts on the script of the fifth season flashback episode “Travelers.” To put it mildly, he was not a fan.
![The Reverend and the Director: FBI files capture the one and only face-to-face meeting between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/01/16/MLKov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The Reverend and the Director: FBI files capture the one and only face-to-face meeting between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr.
While a not-insignificant percentage of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s activities under Director J. Edgar Hoover were driven by personal vendettas, few were as well-known – or as publicly vicious – as Hoover’s feud with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. That clash quite literally came to a head on December 1, 1964, when, at the urging of President Lyndon Johnson, Hoover invited King to FBI headquarters for their first - and only - face to face meeting, captured in a ten-page memo in King’s file.
![Join the Great Hoover Hunt](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/10/29/hCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Join the Great Hoover Hunt
Using the Assignment crowdsourcing tool, MuckRock is kicking off a project to catalog all of the handwritten notes left by Hoover himself in the Bureau’s files.
![Ronald Reagan couldn't get J. Edgar Hoover to guest star on "General Electric Theater"](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/09/20/GEcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Ronald Reagan couldn’t get J. Edgar Hoover to guest star on “General Electric Theater”
Last week, we took our first look into Ronald Reagan’s recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation file and how it documented the close personal friendship between Reagan and Director J. Edgar Hoover. However, a section of the file from a decade earlier reveals a much less auspicious first encounter between the Gipper and the G-Man, with Hoover repeatedly turning down a starstruck Reagan’s offer to guest star on General Electric Theater.
![After retiring, CIA’s first director warned J. Edgar Hoover of Agency’s "corruption"](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/08/29/Hcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
After retiring, CIA’s first director warned J. Edgar Hoover of Agency’s “corruption”
A recently released copy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation file for Central Intelligence Agency Director Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter reveals that shortly after his retirement, Hillenkoetter admitted to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that elements of the Agency were corrupt.