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Helen Gandy
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Helen Gandy

Helen Gandy at her desk at Bureau headquarters in the Department of Justice Building, circa1940.
BornApril 8,1897
Rockville, New Jersey
DiedJuly 7,1988
(heart attack)DeLand, Florida (New York Times obituary)Orange City, Florida (Post obituary)
Helen Wilburforce Gandy (April 8,1897–July 7,1988) was anAmericancivil servant. Gandy, who at age twenty-one left her nativeNew Jersey forWashington, D.C., was thesecretary toFederal Bureau of Investigation directorJ. Edgar Hoover for fifty-four years. Hoover called her "indispensable" and she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the workings of the Bureau. Following Hoover‘s death in1972, 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.