Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FBI agents, dressed in chinos and sweaters, entered the shabby air-conditioning repair shop and arranged to take it over for the day. Scratching peepholes in the painted-over storefront window, they squinted patiently at the doorway across the East Village street. Pasted next to the peepholes were pictures of the suspects, some snapped surreptitiously at peace rallies by other FBI agents in the guise of press photographers. A crackling radio brought terse reports from about a dozen other teams staked out near by. Finally the agents spotted their prey and set a dragnet into operation...
...dynamite blasts within two days rocked New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank headquarters, the RCA Building, the new General Motors Corp. offices and the Criminal Courts Building. With New Yorkers on edge and the city's twelve-man bomb squad in a "state of exhaustion," the FBI tailed its suspects to a mid-Manhattan armory where agents witnessed two men place four time bombs in a National Guard truck. Arrested and charged with conspiring to damage Government property were Samuel Melville, 34, a health faddist and sometime plumbing engineer, and George Demmerle, 39, an itinerant diemaker...
...FBI agent said that he could not have arrested the Eight on Saturday even if he had wanted to "No arrest warrant has been issued to our knowledge. No one even knew the names of the alleged Boston Eight before today," he said...
...even know whether you're in violation of any law. Is this the draft law you've violated?" a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent said to the group when they asked to be arrested for last weekend's destruction of files at six Boston draft board offices. The FBI agent gave the group the address of their local FBI offices, and told them to turn themselves in there...
...highly unlikely that any will. Most newsmen consider their relationships with their sources as sacrosanct as those of a lawyer with a client or a priest with a penitent. They react to one of their number moonlighting for a federal agency as they do to police, FBI or other investigative agents posing as newsmen. Although FBI agents were specifically ordered not to pose as reporters in June 1968 by then Attorney General Ramsey Clark, many journalists suspect that the practice continues among plainclothes police. "It may be argued," wrote Columnist Murray Kempton, "that reporters do not deserve to be trusted...