Helen Gandy
Helen W. Gandy ( April 8, 1897 *, † July 7, 1988 in DeLand, Florida) was an American officer who served more than 50 years as a personal assistant to the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Gandy was known. Primarily by the coordinated destruction of all of their personal documents Hoover after his death in 1972
Life
The daughter of Franklin Dallas and Annie Gandy, nee Williams, grew up in Fairton, New Jersey. After completion of Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, New Jersey, she attended study courses at the Corcoran School of Art, George Washington University Law School and Strayer Business College.
After a short stint as a shop it was in 1918 set by the Ministry of Justice. As of March 25, 1918, she worked as a stenographer for J. Edgar Hoover. In 1921 she followed the Hoover Bureau of Investigation ( BOI), where it first as Assistant Director ( " Vice President " ) worked. When Hoover was appointed on May 10, 1924 Director, he promoted Gandy to his secretary.
1937 Gandy Job Title to " Office Assistant (FBI Director's Office )" was added and it was promoted to " Executive Assistant " to the Director on 1 October 1939. Hoover carried Gandy further later, this job title was, however, maintained. During a promotion called Hoover Gandy as the only " indispensible " person at the FBI.
After Hoover's death on May 2, 1972 Gandy destroyed over several weeks, all personal documents of the director as well as his extensive secret dossiers on countless people in public life. These dossiers in which Hoover particular morally held savory misdemeanors and criminal involvement of the persons concerned, he systematized with the help of a designed by himself, encrypted ordering system, which was based on specific file number. This file number - singular number and letter codes - were composed so that they were only for himself a meaning to other people, however, were inscrutable. This Spezialchiffrierung Hoover made sure that only he and a few familiar as Gandy knew at what point in the millions of files comprehensive archives of the FBI, the Act was to locate a specific person.
1975 had to testify in front of a Kongressauschuss once again to the destruction of the files, and they insisted that there had been only personal documents Hoovers Gandy. Congressmen, including Andrew Maguire, were convinced that Gandy log, but you could not prove anything.
On the day of Hoover's death Gandy retired and lived until the end of the 1980s continued in Washington, DC. Later she moved to DeLand, Florida, where she died on July 7, 1988 of heart failure at the age of 91 years. Gandy was life unmarried and left no children.
In popular culture
In Clint Eastwood's biopic J. Edgar Naomi Watts took over the role of Helen Gandy.