Word: fbi
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This committee will also take over coordination of counterespionage, an activity that is handled by the FBI within the U.S. and by the CIA abroad. No one is sure how this change will work, since counterespionage has become the unwanted stepchild of intelligence. The FBI admits flatly it no longer has the manpower to keep track of all the Soviet KGB agents flowing into the U.S. and its efforts, like the CIA's, have been impeded by growing restrictions on surveillance. Admits one Carter aide: "Counterintelligence is still a mess. We haven't resolved anything except to deal with...
Surveillance of American citizens within the U.S. can be conducted by the FBI only in the course of a formal, lawful investigation; surveillance of a U.S. citizen abroad is allowed only if he is thought to be involved in some activity inimical to national security. The Attorney General is instructed to make sure that any "intelligence activity within the United States or directed against any United States person is conducted by the least intrusive means possible...
Carr was arrested in Boston on charges that he had failed to obey an order by a Michigan federal court to cease violating securities laws. After Carr was released on $100,000 bail, authorities believe, he fled to Bermuda or the Cayman islands. An FBI fingerprint check revealed that "James Carr" was really one Alan Abrahams, an escaped convict with a 22-year criminal record, who in 1974 had fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much...
Abrahams had no difficulty slipping through a superficial SEC and FBI name check in 1977 and getting a license as a commodity trading adviser from the Commodities Future Trading Commission, the federal agency created in 1974 to regulate the industry. He set up Lloyd, Carr in mid-1976 to specialize in the most speculative of all investments: options in futures of such items as coffee, sugar, cocoa and copper, which are traded on the London commodities market...
...Government's position to Jack Kennedy, who was shocked when Cassini's wife cracked under the strain and killed herself. Both Jack and Joe Kennedy urged mercy for Igor, but Bobby persisted. Finally, Nizer realized that Bobby had gone so far as to have the FBI tap his phone conversations with his client. "I was stunned," he writes, "by this violation of law by the Attorney General in the course of trying to prove a violation by Igor . . . I had to curb my impulse to tell him just what I thought of his tactics and venom. But always...