John R. Bohrer, Capital New York

What J. Edgar Hoover Did to a New York Times Critic of the FBI

In the early 1970s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation considered it pertinent biographical information that The New York Times' Tom Wicker suffered from “mental halitosis.” Since this is not, strictly speaking, a medical condition, they qualified the classification with “apparently.”

• John R. Bohrer, Capital New York
• April 11, 2012