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...portrayed as a dedicated, hard-working loner who approved wiretaps only in matters of life and death. Hoover's picture was again on the cover of TIME in August of 1949, when the nation was concerned with internal security. The '40s director was observed as a dossier-keeper who carefully followed the peregrinations of the American left. Hoover's day-to-day operations remained a secret. The details of his abusive wiretaps, conspiracy with executives to misuse the bureau's power, and harassment of citizens are only now being told. They are the subject...
...etched in mashed potatoes. He turns out to have been a major white-collar crook with, among other things, a far-flung gunrunning empire. The eponymous Abominable Man is, of all things, a police superintendent. After someone slices the man in half with a bayonet, Beck compiles an appalling dossier of his brutalities. Many instances are easily available in the Ombudsman's files, all marked "No action...
Bartender is known as Lyle Joseph Thomas on police records and his dossier is full. He has been arrested eleven times on charges that include assault on a police officer, simple assault, strong-armed robbery and possession of a carbine. But, thanks to the vagaries of juvenile justice, he has never served time in jail...
Democratic Representative Bella Abzug of New York got the file that the CIA had on her, and found that for 22 years, the agency had been maintaining a dossier on some of her activities as lawyer and politician (TIME, March 17). Similarly, the CIA turned over to former Democratic Representative Charles Porter of Oregon 17 items from his file, including a report on his attendance at a 1968 meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality in Oakland, Calif. Asks Porter: "What the hell does that have to do with the CIA? They're treating me like a security risk...
Since then, Neier has taken that aggressive stance even further. "In the past," he says, "we spent most of our lobbying time trying to stop bad bills." Now there is also active prodding and proposing of new laws: Neier wrote his just-published book Dossier to "help quicken the movement" for legal curbs on both private and Government information gatherers. The chubby young executive director has also developed specialists who push for the rights of such groups as homosexuals, minors and servicemen-sometimes even before they organize in their own behalf...