The Man Who Read Playboy
February, 2001
Last fall, using the Freedom of Information Act, the Internet site APBnews.com secured 213 pages of FBI documents related to Playboy. It appears that the magazine was the object of more than a decade of scrutiny by the nation's top G-men.In December 1962, publisher Hugh M. Hefner had undertaken a project he called the Playboy Philosophy. In the third installment, Hef criticized J. Edgar Hoover's stance on pornography, charging that the FBI director used an antismut crusade to cover up his agency...
