Word: fbi
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Thornburgh's policy may also deter politically motivated leaks. The Justice Department faced criticism this summer after an offical leaked to CBS News information about an alleged criminal investigation of Rep. William Gray (D-Penn.). The report made it sound as if Gray were under criminal scrutiny, although the FBI was merely investigating an accountant whom Gray knew casually...
...politically left-leaning friends--the ones who have been urging me not to pay my phone bill--are rather suspicious of even the slightest interference on the phone. They take my roommates' discreet entrances and exits on the line to be indiscretions on the part of the FBI and CIA, which have nefariously compiled files on people even more innocuous than Harvard leftists...
Lincoln and on an FBI jet rather than first class on commercial airlines...
...John le Carre's fictional world of spy vs. spy, the good spooks outfox the bad spooks by dealing in deceit and deception. In the real world of counterespionage, the FBI is taking a much more candid approach. This month it began running an unusual help-wanted ad in a Russian-language newspaper in New York City to make a very public plea: anyone having "direct knowledge of KGB methods or operations" should call or write the nearest FBI office. The ad provides telephone numbers, including that of a counterintelligence section conveniently manned by Russian-speaking agents...
...appeal is directed at the roughly 200,000 Soviet citizens who have immigrated to the U.S. since 1975, many of whom live in the New York area. The purpose of the ads, says FBI spokesman Milt Ahlerich, is the "identification of hostile intelligence activities." That includes the detection of approaches made to Soviet emigres by KGB agents. But couldn't the callers deliberately feed disinformation to the FBI? "That could happen," concedes Ahlerich. "We're prepared to address the problem." Despite the FBI's new glasnost, Ahlerich would not even hint at what respondents to the ad have been telling...