Helen Wilburforce Gandy was the longtime secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J Edgar Hoover, who called her "indispensable".
16 Facts About Helen Gandy
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Helen Gandy was born in Rockville, New Jersey, one of three children born to Franklin Dallas and Annie Gandy.
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Helen Gandy grew up in New Jersey in Fairton or the Port Norris section of Commercial Township and graduated from Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
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Hoover became director of the Bureau in 1924, and Helen Gandy continued in his service.
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Helen Gandy was promoted to "office assistant" on August 23,1937, and "executive assistant" on October 1,1939.
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Helen Gandy found file cabinets open and packing boxes being filled with papers.
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Helen Gandy informed him the boxes contained personal papers of Hoover's.
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Helen Gandy stated Gray flipped through a few files and approved her work, but Gray was to deny he looked at any papers.
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Helen Gandy told Gray it would be a week before she could clear Hoover's effects out so Gray could move into the suite.
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Helen Gandy later testified nothing official had been removed from the FBI's offices, "not even his badge".
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The FBI Washington field office had FBI drivers transport the material to Hoover's home, then once Helen Gandy had gone through the material, the drivers transported it back to the field office in the Old Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, where it was shredded and burned.
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Helen Gandy stated that Hoover had left standing instructions to destroy his personal papers upon his death, and that this instruction was confirmed by Tolson and Gray.
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Helen Gandy stated that she destroyed no official papers, that everything was personal papers of Hoover's.
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Helen Gandy said the files she took to his home included his financial papers, such as tax returns and investment statements, the deed to his home, and papers relating to his dogs' pedigrees.
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Helen Gandy lived in Washington until 1986, when she moved to DeLand, Florida, in Volusia County, where a niece lived.
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Helen Gandy died of a heart attack on July 7,1988, either in DeLand or in nearby Orange City, Florida,.