Former FBI Agent Arrives Home to a Case of Deja Vu
There’s a curious twist to the confrontation between Citizens Against Pornography in Thousand Oaks and Noel Charles Bloom, whose firm, Creative Video Services, has been targeted by the group.
Homer E. Young, the group’s chairman, was in the FBI for 29 years and is former national field coordinator for FBI investigations of obscenity. In 1971, the burly Young arrested Bloom’s father, the late Bernard Bloom, on federal charges of interstate transportation of obscene films in what became known as the “Cinema Classics” case.
Young retired from the FBI in 1972 and now is a consultant to anti-pornography groups. He was called to testify Jan. 21 at New York hearings of the U. S. Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography. At that time, he listed Noel Charles Bloom, among others, as a major national distributor of erotic materials.
Shortly after the 67-year-old Young returned to his Thousand Oaks home, news broke that Creative Video had leased a facility in the city’s Newbury Park area.
“I came back here and got a real kick in the head,” Young said.
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