Helen Wilburforce Gandy (April 8, 1897 – July 7, 1988) was an American civil servant.
In 1918, aged 21, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she later took classes at Strayer Business College and George Washington University Law School. ==Career== Gandy briefly worked in a department store in Washington before finding a job as a file clerk at the Justice Department in 1918.
Within weeks, she went to work as a typist for Hoover, effective March 25, 1918, having told Hoover in her interview she had "no immediate plans to marry." She, like Hoover, would never marry; both were completely devoted to the Bureau. When Hoover went to the Bureau of Investigation (its original title; it became the F.B.I.
in 1935) as its assistant director on August 22, 1921, he specifically requested Gandy return from vacation to help him in the new post.
Hoover became director of the Bureau in 1924, and Gandy continued in his service.
in 1935) as its assistant director on August 22, 1921, he specifically requested Gandy return from vacation to help him in the new post.
She was promoted to "office assistant" on August 23, 1937 and "executive assistant" on October 1, 1939.
She was promoted to "office assistant" on August 23, 1937 and "executive assistant" on October 1, 1939.
Since 1957, Hoover's "Official/Confidential" files, containing material too sensitive to include in the Bureau's central files, had been kept in the outer office, where Gandy sat.
Hoover left her $5,000 in his will. In 1961, Gandy and her sister, Lucy G.
Following Hoover's death in 1972, she spent weeks destroying his "Personal File", thought to be where the most incriminating material he used to manipulate and control the most powerful figures in Washington was kept. ==Early life== Helen Gandy was born in Rockville, New Jersey, one of three children (two daughters and a son) born to Franklin Dallas and Annie (née Williams) Gandy.
Though she would receive promotions in her civil service grade subsequently, she retained her title as executive assistant until her retirement on May 2, 1972, the day Hoover died.
Mark Felt, deputy associate director of the Bureau, wrote in his memoir that Gandy "was bright and alert and quick-tempered—and completely dedicated to her boss." ===Files=== Hoover died during the night of May 1–2, 1972.
Crawford then yelled out to Fields and Tom Moton (Hoover's new chauffeur after Crawford had retired in January 1972).
source in spring 1975, who said: "Gandy had begun almost a year before Mr.
Mohr would claim the boxes Angleton removed were cases of spoiled wine. In 1975, when the House Committee on Government Oversight investigated the F.B.I.'s illegal COINTELPRO program of spying on and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr.
() "Hoover's Political Spying for Presidents" Time Magazine December 15, 1975. "Obituaries".
December 22, 1975. United Press International.
Edgar Hoover's Files and FBI Recordkeeping: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, December 1, 1975.
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1975. ==External links== Attorney General Griffin Bell's statement on the investigation into the destruction of the files: 1897 births 1988 deaths Bridgeton High School alumni Federal Bureau of Investigation People from Commercial Township, New Jersey People from Volusia County, Florida United States Department of Justice officials
Putnam's Sons, 1979.
Gandy lived in Washington until 1986, when she moved to DeLand, Florida, in Volusia County, where a niece lived.
Helen Wilburforce Gandy (April 8, 1897 – July 7, 1988) was an American civil servant.
Gandy was an avid trout fisherman. ==Death== Gandy died of a heart attack on July 7, 1988, either in DeLand (as indicated by her New York Times obituary) or in nearby Orange City, Florida (as stated in her Post obituary). ==In popular culture== Gandy was portrayed by actresses Lee Kessler in the television film J.
577-60-1115 Her SSN "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTZB-L23 : 20 May 2014), Helen W Gandy, 15 Jul 1988; citing U.S.
According to Curt Gentry, who wrote the 1991 book J Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, Hoover's body was not discovered by his live-in cook and general housekeeper, Annie Fields; rather, it was discovered by James Crawford, who had been Hoover's chauffeur for 37 years.
New York: Checkmark Books, 2000.
Beverly Hills, California: New Millennium Press, 2004.
Post on Ancestry.com Retrieved July 18, 2005. Curt Gentry.
577-60-1115 Her SSN "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTZB-L23 : 20 May 2014), Helen W Gandy, 15 Jul 1988; citing U.S.
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