Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physical protection is now another, necessary, status symbol. Sperry Rand hired a retired FBI agent to travel overseas to check security arrangements for executives. High executives at Atlantic Richfield, Standard Oil of California and other oil companies typically move from office to limousine to private jet accompanied by bodyguards...
These days Barger's context is the courtroom and the San Francisco County Jail where he is held in lieu of $1 million cash bail. Both he and the prosecutors trace the roots of the present case to "the Zerby bombing." William Zerby is a former drug agent who was obsessed with nailing the Angels and was deafened in 1978 by a planted bomb. The newer, younger Hell's Angels turned meaner while Sonny was in jail. "Things changed. The whole world's meaner," he says. Sonny Barger has no regrets - except maybe about the antiwar demonstrators...
...CRIMSON received an official-looking letter, six days after Fairfield's article ran, from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, labeling the piece "inaccurate, distorted and untrue." Hoover insisted that: no undercover agents or general informants operated at Yale; no secret files were provided to "Yale or any other educational institution"; no FBI agents "influenced Yale academic and political activities; and no FBI agent ever investigated "applicants for teaching positions in Yale or any other college or university." Finally, Hoover asserted, two people quoted in Fairfield's story had denied the statements attributed to them. The letter...
...following September, J.J. Gleason, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's New Haven office, wrote to Hoover. Subject: discussions between himself and FBI Assistant Director L.B. Nichols about the Fairfield story "which was derogatory to the Bureau." Gleason warned Hoover that he had received a call from a Yale Daily News reporter, tipping him off that the News planned to run a follow-up story, featuring an interview with Cohen. The post-doctoral student's "identity was known to the Bureau" (FBI-speak for a person who is on file with the FBI), Gleason made sure to note...
Despite the FBI story that Henry Margenau, the physics professor, formally denied that his encounter with the FBI ever took place, Margenau now says, "I was visited by an FBI agent on several occasions--once or twice a year for several years--then nothing." He recalls the speech before the New Haven Youth Movement and confirms that "the FBI admonished me for speaking" to a group with "red tinge." He adds that he "probably" did inform the FBI of subsequent offers to lecture when he didn't know the political orientation of the audience. Margenau says he is still puzzled...