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...started last month, in an unmarked first-floor superintendent's office in the Cronkhite Graduate Center, with former FBI agent James A. Ring asking the questions, one-on-one, of security guards generally friendly to department management...
...George Washington. Instantly a stern White House functionary informed her, "We've never had music in the Oval Office." Only the President, it was decided, could approve such a breach in decorum. "Sure," said Clinton, and Eric Clapton's album Unplugged began to fill the room. A Secret Service agent remarked to a colleague, "I told you we were gonna miss the other...
...involve the agency in business intelligence because of the nightmarish legal and logistical questions: Should the CIA conduct counterespionage operations only? What about offensive actions? How would CIA business intelligence be disseminated? To all U.S. companies or just a select few? Then there is the question of how much agents can be expected to do on behalf of corporations. Former CIA director Robert Gates recalls one agent's telling him: "Mr. Gates, I'm prepared to give my life for my country but not for a company...
Even as he railed against gays as "sexual deviants," Hoover apparently struggled with his own homosexuality. Summers offers fresh details of Hoover's 40-year friendship with Clyde Tolson, a handsome young agent he plucked out of the rank and file and quickly promoted to assistant director. The pair ate dinner together almost every night and vacationed together every year; Summers contends that Luisa Stuart, a former fashion model, once saw them holding hands in the back seat of a limo. According to Summers, the Mafia claimed to have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs...
...only as straight as an arrow," recalled a former agent last week on PBS's Frontline. "We had to give every perception that we were straight as arrows." In 1972, at age 77, the omnipotent FBI chief became the first civil servant to be granted a state funeral, at which he was eulogized by Richard Nixon in the Rotunda of the Capitol as "one of the giants . . . a national symbol of courage, patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity." But the year before, bedeviled by fallout from his efforts to tap the phones of journalists, the President had confided...