Bettie Page: FBI Bondage Informant

Pin-up star Bettie Page was also an FBI informant, The Smoking Gun reports. After police raided a Harlem apartment in 1957, and found "a cache of obscene magazines and photos, paddles, a riding crop, a whip, and lengths of chain, rawhide, and rope," FBI agents enlisted Page's help to determine if the apartment had been used as a pornographic photography studio. Page told investigators that she "had never heard of that type of photography being made in Harlem."

The obscene magazines were then sent to Washington to be examined at the FBI laboratory.

Comments

[dbrett480]

02:27 PM on 05/16/2010

Stories like this show that we have been fascinated by the more taboo sides of sex for a long time. The "good ole days" idea that sex was private and vanilla is a complete myth.

[LordByron13]

01:59 PM on 04/16/2010

Betty Page, Mae West etc...something I find about these women as extremely hot, even these days.

Yet, Gretchen Mol As Betty Page...wow.

I so wish that's how Betty's personality really was(I also wish I had a shot at Gretchen, but no chance there) ...of course its foolish to think that based on a movie, but, there is nothing to be ashamed of in the human body...it should be celebrated! As a Christian, of all the things I personally believe God gave us, the body is one of the most beautiful, in terms of aesthetics and functionality...

Ok, so I could deal without the posse of lecherous men in a basement(sorry, I'm selfish and well, I dunno its just wierd), but, based on the movie with Gretchen, if she was even close to accurate...Betty was a goddess, and seemed thankful for the beauty bestowed upon her by her parents genes, and in my opinion, God himself.

Such a sweet person...and not a controlling bone in her body.
No more fearful than the average person, maybe slightly less...
(There's a correlation I'm making here...)

[dtmfman]

01:30 PM on 04/16/2010

I can just see that cross dresser hoover one handing it now.....

[William Young]

11:45 AM on 04/16/2010

Nice, considering these pictures were before I was even thought of LOL!

[Z James Prokulewicz]

05:20 PM on 04/15/2010

Bettie Booped by the FBI.....oh my

[JScott]

12:28 PM on 04/15/2010

Bettie Page would be laughing in heaven right now along with J. Edgar.

She'd say 'wasn't that a hoot!

[Nooneyouknow]

01:28 PM on 04/15/2010

J. Edgar's not in heaven. Not at all.

[Lefty Pockets]

06:26 AM on 04/15/2010

so being an informant means talking to the FBI in any way? Bad headline. Her statement had zero substance, which is actually a credit to her as a person. She could have ratted out other pornographers and models but she chose to protect them. That's class.

[LMPE]

12:32 AM on 04/15/2010

I must be the only person in the world who mentioned Bettie Page while I was at an ethnographic museum 2 hours outside of Moscow.

[MontanaMan]

11:26 PM on 04/14/2010

Hoover was probably looking for pointers to use with Clyde!

[Nooneyouknow]

01:29 PM on 04/15/2010

Pointers, thwackers, pokers--whatever Clyde wanted.

[BlueCheesehead]

09:22 PM on 04/14/2010

"The obscene magazines were then sent to Washington to be examined at the FBI laboratory."

Yeah, examined. LMAO

[Waitaminute]

07:16 PM on 04/14/2010

I think someone was on to old J Edgar Hoover and was trying to get confirmation on their own.

[roninroshi]

05:28 PM on 04/14/2010

There is supposed to be a photo of J.Edgar in drag holding a riding crop...now we know where the crop came from.

[mamacat]

04:33 PM on 04/14/2010

I imagine her and J Edgar had a lot to talk about.

[MountPanic]

04:11 PM on 04/14/2010

Being interviewed by the FBI is hardly the same thing as being an "informant."

[Mannock]

10:51 PM on 04/14/2010

I was thinking that myself. That is like saying that when you tell a police officer that you were unaware that you were speeding you are a stoolie. Bad headline.

[NYCannibal]

03:54 PM on 04/14/2010

The memory of Bettie Page makes me proud to be an American. Stand tall, or take a blue pill if you need to!