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Hoover, J. Edgar (1895-1972) FBI Archive Including Signed Letters, 1952-1979. Archive of documents from the U.S. Department of Justice related to the FBI career of Special Agent Edward J. Krupinsky (sometimes Krupinski) (1929-1985) including approximately sixty letters signed by J. Edgar Hoover (and additional letters and forms with reproduced); along with letters signed by Acting FBI Directors Louis Patrick Gray III, William D. Ruckelshaus, and Directors Clarence M. Kelley and William H. Webster, and others [together with] a scrapbook and collection of letters coinciding with Krupinsky's retirement in 1979 and a group of approximately fifteen photographs.
N.B. 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.
Estimate $400-600
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Louis Patrick Gray III, William H. Webster, Edward J. Krupinsky, William D. Ruckelshaus, Omaha, St. Louis, Charlotte, Chicago, ClevelandJohn Dorfman
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