Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford flew first to Chicago, where the Secret Service had requested the local police to impose the tightest security in the city's history: some 1,000 patrolmen and plainclothesmen were assigned. Also on hand were at least 100 Secret Service agents and an undisclosed number from the FBI. The area outside...
...hearing failed to resolve the conflict between the Secret Service and San Francisco Police Inspector Jack O'Shea. The inspector said he had warned both the FBI and the Secret Service that "she might be another Squeaky Fromme." O'Shea testified that he had a photograph of Moore enlarged and six prints made for the Secret Service, but that they were not picked up by the agents. In what appears to have been a misunderstanding, the agents thought O'Shea was unconcerned about any danger from Moore. "Do we need anything else, do we have a problem...
...violence . . . the lives and property of people who were being subjected to violence, the 20,000 bombings that occurred in one year and the 39 police officers who were killed." The White House was also worried that the violence might be partially directed or funded from abroad. Yet the FBI, in the opinion of the President's men, did not seem to be making a sufficient effort to establish the connection...
Angleton described how helpful the CIA had been in the case of the Weatherpeople who blew up a Manhattan town house, where they were making bombs in 1970. FBI files contained little information about one of the fugitives, Kathy Boudin. The CIA, on the other hand, was able to supply more than 50 intercepted letters dealing with Boudin's activities...
...informer of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The day before the assassination attempt, she had helped a Treasury agent build a case against the dealer who sold her the gun she fired at Ford. Previously, she had spied on radicals for the FBI and worked for the San Francisco police. All in all, a stunning performance in deviousness that would surely give informers a bad name-if they did not have an appalling track record already. Harrison Salisbury, writing in the New York Times, was reminded of the informer in czarist Russia...