The FBI was addicted to gossip.
From time to time, the Monroe file seems more like a gossip newspaper than an official dossier. Firstly, it is filled with second-hand and third-hand accounts, anonymous tips, press clippings from weird newspapers, and unidentified sources.
You’d think the backing of the federal government would come with an interesting insight, but it truly seems that the agents who were in charge of Marilyn Monroe’s case relied on the same media and gossip reports everyone else had access to.
The most common newspapers that were cited in the file were The Washington Star, the Communist Party USA’s The Daily Worker, and the New York Post.
