 Fred J. Cook

Fred James Cook (March 8, 1911 – April 4, 2003) was an American investigative journalist whose prime years of reporting spanned from the 1950s to the late 1970s.His 1964 exposé, "The FBI Nobody Knows," was central to the plot of one of Rex Stout's most popular Nero Wolfe novels, "The Doorbell Rang" (1965).