Paul Letersky

Photograph by Sharon Knorr

About The Author

Paul Letersky is a former FBI agent whose early service included two years working directly for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a personal assistant. Letersky would go on to become a Special Agent and participate in events that grabbed national headlines. After leaving the FBI, he became vice president of Pan American World Airways. Letersky lives in Oregon. 

Books by Paul Letersky

The Director

My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover

By Paul Letersky
With Gordon L. Dillow
The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff—his former assistant, Paul Letersky—offers unprecedented, “clear-eyed and compelling” (Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter) insight into an American legend.
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