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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Hoover died in 1972, Gray took over and immediately scotched a plan to promote Adams again. Instead, trying to rid the bureau of hard-core Hooverites, Gray ordered Adams out of headquarters, to the backwater office in San Antonio. (Many veteran agents believe that Adams urged Attorney General Bell to prosecute Gray for the Weatherman break-ins to even the score...
...When President Carter and Attorney General Bell were about to name a new FBI chief, the bureau's investigation into Bert Lance's affairs, supervised by Adams, stalled for a number of days. At the time, an FBI official admitted the bureau was "holding back" and later confirmed the delay when he proclaimed, "We're going full blast now." There have been no suggestions that either Carter or Bell ordered the stall. The bureau apparently took it upon itself to delay on Lance in order not to offend the Administration...
...bureau, he says he knew what kind of director he did not want-"someone who says, 'We've got a right to do whatever we think is best for the country.' " Webster points out that he talked to many people before naming Adams. He consulted with Bell, Kelley, Congressmen and Senators, six FBI field commanders and the 15-man FBI executive conference. Of the latter group, however, two top-echelon bureau officials agree that "only a couple of those guys know what they're doing." Moreover, all of the six field commanders owe their present jobs...
...months the appointment of an associate director. His most time-consuming task has involved wrestling with FBI budget problems and testifying about them before appropriation committees on Capitol Hill. Webster has also been working with the Justice Department in formulating a new charter for the FBI, which, Bell promises, should be ready by July. In short, Webster has been as busy as Americans would expect a new FBI director to be. As his knowledge of how the FBI functions deepens with time, his refutation of his "Charlie McCarthy" relationship with Adams-"I am the director...
...climb for hours in the hot sun to reach the marijuana and opium poppies hidden in the Mexican Sierra Madre. Then they had to hack up the crop with machetes and burn it. Starting in 1975, the U.S. made their work easier by providing blue and white helicopters (Bell 212s and 206s), purchased at a cost of about $21 million; some of the helicopters were used to spray herbicides from a few feet above the ground. Others served as gun ships, hovering above to shoot it out with the peasants who took up arms to defend their crop. The program...