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September 22, 2005

Forbidden Facts 3: Baden Powell

Baden Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout movement was involved in naturism and paganism.

In his formation of the Scout movement, Baden-Powell was heavily influenced by the unorthodox ideas of the "WanderVogel", an early 20th Century German youth group interested in “back to nature” ideas.

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September 14, 2005

Forbidden Facts 2: Edgar Hoover

Edgar Hoover was a closet homosexual and transvestite

J. Edgar Hoover, scourge of communists and subversives during the "Cold War" was a closet homosexual and transvestite.

J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI from 1924 until his death until 1972. He persecuted alleged communists such as John Lennon, and Robert J Oppenheimer , the "father of the atomic bomb".

However the life of J Edgar Hoover was far stranger than that of any of his cold war suspects.

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