Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this century crime rates have risen and fallen in response to complex forces we do not well understand. Until the FBI began to keep track of crime in the 1930s, there were not even any national figures to show these changes. The FBI Uniform Crime Reports, though imperfect, reveal some remarkable trends. For example, during the 1930s, reported rates of robbery and burglary declined more or less steadily in spite of (or perhaps because of) adverse economic conditions. In the 1960s the reported rates of these crimes rose despite (or again, perhaps because of) general prosperity...
...isolation that many people questioned whether the body was actually his. The Internal Revenue Service, which had been on the verge of declaring him legally dead in order to claim the huge estate tax, took fingerprints from the corpse to check against genuine Hughes prints on file with the FBI in Washington. It was Hughes, all right...
...Satisfied and vindicated" was the way Political Columnist Joseph Kraft described himself last week. After years of protesting illegal wiretaps on his Georgetown home, Kraft was finally given assurances from Attorney General Edward Levi that his FBI files would be destroyed, and that such taps "would not be authorized" any longer by the Justice Department. Kraft had first learned of the bugs back in 1973; after gaining access to his FBI dossier recently, he learned even more. During a trip to Paris by the journalist back in 1969, FBI agents arranged for a bug in his room at the George...
Both Tait and Mohr insist that there is nothing improper in their relationship. Their associates add that both "are cooperating fully" in the second investigation. However, Tail's firm will no longer function as an FBI "cutout" until the investigation is completed. Justice Department officials are now hoping that the new investigation may prompt Kelley to take a long step toward completing the housecleaning that began after J. Edgar Hoover's death...
...tape of a conversation he had had with his principal aide, Haldeman. When Buzhardt heard the tape, he knew immediately that Nixon was finished. It showed indisputably that Nixon had lied in claiming he had national security in mind when he asked top CIA officials to urge FBI Director L. Patrick Gray to hold up an investigation of Watergate burglary funds that had been channeled into Mexico. The tape made it obvious that both Nixon and Haldeman feared the money would be traced back to the President's re-election committee. The motive was purely political and self-protective...