Mr. Hoover, the agency’s longtime director, gave orders that led “multiple witnesses” to conceal their roles as informants, prosecutors said.
Source: New York Times
J. Edgar Hoover Hid That Malcolm X Witnesses Were F.B.I. Informants
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