Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

How did the New York financier stay nearly untouchable for decades?

Journalist and noted chronicler of CIA covert activities, Douglas Valentine, noted in his book The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World that the government’s cooperation with the Mafia during World War II led to its expansion after the war and set the stage for its future collaboration with U.S. intelligence agencies. New book pictures the late former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a drag queen. Was Hoover a Blackmail Victim?