J.Edgar Hoover TLS Commending Special Agent Edward J. Krupinsky

Single page typed letter signed on letterhead of Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. , 7" x 9.5". Signed by J. Edgar Hoover as "J. Edgar Hoover". Dated "September 24, 1971". Expected folds with two tiny staple holes to the upper margin, else near fine.

FBI career of Special Agent Edward J. Krupinsky headed the Nebraska-Iowa FBI office from 1974 until his retirement from the FBI in August 1979. He became a special agent in 1952 assigned to the FBI's Cleveland office. Krupinsky served in the Army from 1955 to 1957. He then worked at FBI offices in Cleveland, Chicago, Washington, St. Louis, Detroit and Charlotte, North Carolina, before being assigned to Omaha. In the letter offered here, Hoover commended Krupinsky as shown in part below:

 "I am pleased to commend you for your effective performance in connection with the Bribery case concerning Curtis Cornell Crawford and others.

You fulfilled all of your important obligations with a great deal of competence and the noteworthy fashion with which you led and effected the successful arrest of one of the subjects is indeed exemplary. I am appreciative."

A lovely letter showing Hoovers warm side.

J. Edgar Hoover was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 48 years, reshaping that organization from a small, relatively weak arm of the federal government’s executive branch into a highly effective investigative agency. His aggressive methods targeting organized groups and specific individuals – politicians, celebrities and political activists – made him a powerful but controversial figure throughout most of his career, and particularly after his death, when the full extent of the FBI’s intrusive and borderline illegal surveillance activities became known.

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