Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francis that proclaimed, "The mission: To gun down President Ford. Need to have a room for three people." Then he fled into the park. In Florida, John Clayton Massey, an unemployed service station attendant, was charged with conspiracy to assassinate the President. He had walked into an FBI office in Ocala, Fla., claiming he was part of a plan to kill Ford and Senator Edward Kennedy. However unrealistic such voluntarily revealed plots may have been, the climate of violence could not be ignored...
...night of Saturday, Sept. 20, Sally Moore, an estranged FBI informant, late convert to radicalism and an efficient but troublesome bookkeeper, telephoned San Francisco Police Inspector Jack O'Shea. She had helped him before in investigating reports of fraud in last year's $2 million program to distribute food to the San Francisco Bay Area's needy, as demanded by the kidnapers of Patty Hearst...
Alarmed after Moore hung up, O'Shea called the FBI. He related the conversation, described Moore, reported the license number of her 1970 tan Toyota, and expressed his concern that she might be dangerous to the President. The FBI assured him that it would notify the Secret Service. When a Secret Service agent called him Saturday evening, O'Shea reported Moore's cryptic remarks about going to Stanford...
...only that the interview showed she "was not of sufficient protection interest to warrant surveillance." San Francisco police believe, however, that the federal agents were satisfied with Moore's claim that she had needed a gun for fear of reprisal from radicals for informing on their activities to the FBI. The agents were also apparently influenced by the fact that Moore had worked with the FBI and local police. Moreover, however irrational, she seemed to have no motive for wanting to hurt Ford...
...Danville to buy the second gun, Moore apparently made several attempts to hint at what she had in mind so that someone would stop her. She twice called her regular contact on the San Francisco police department. At least twice she telephoned the Secret Service. Once she phoned the FBI. But her incessant chatter muffled the danger she posed. Her calls were shrugged off by officers too busy for idle talk from a middle-aged woman who seemed to like playing conspiracy games and just wanted attention. They had more important duties that day: the President was in town...