Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Coast and in Washington, the Secret Service, the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies worked frantically to learn what motivated the attempted assassination and whether or not Squeaky Fromme had acted alone. Arraigned in Sacramento on a federal charge of attempting to murder the President, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, she sat listlessly through the proceedings, making no statement and showing no reaction when her bail was set at $1 million...
What if Aaron Burr had been a bad shot? What if Lincoln had not attended Our American Cousin? Such questions, history's most tantalizing and ironic, are also its most academic and trivial−except in some extraordinary instances. One such instance is now coming to light. The FBI is investigating the previously unrevealed fact that a few days before President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald dropped in at the bureau's Dallas office to deliver a threatening note. Not only did the Dallas FBI fail to put Oswald under surveillance...
Lost Evidence. In June a maintenance man notified the FBI's Richmond office that he had discovered a wiretapping device on the telephone line of Jamil Ramaden, a radio salesman of Palestinian ancestry. The device turned out to belong to the Richmond police department, which had not bothered to get a court order. (The reasons for the tap have never been disclosed.) Even so, Assistant U.S. Attorney G. Rodney Sager decided not to prosecute the case after he was told that there was no proof that the tap had ever been used. The agents returned the equipment...
...last week's meeting, Tyler argued that the Justice Department investigation was the best way to forestall charges that the FBI was covering up the case. Some agents in his audience agreed, but others did not. One official later cited the probe as evidence that "Kelley doesn't have his hand on the throttle any more-the FBI is just floundering." Still, a day later, the Justice Department made a further attempt to mollify the FBI agents. Officials restored the five agents to duty but did not go so far as to call off the grand jury investigation...
...significantly, the Federal Civil Service Commission in July reversed its ruling that gays are unfit for public service. About 90% of the nation's 2.6 million federal civilian employees are covered by the new policy, though some agencies such as the FBI, CIA and Federal Reserve Board are not. Security clearances, either by Government or industry, are still not given to gays because of fear of blackmail...