Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edgar Hoover liked his FBI agents to have degrees in law, accounting or both, but it now turns out that the bureau could have used some Ph.D.s in English. Both The New Yorker and The Nation magazines last week documented nearly half a century of FBI surveillance of more than 100 prominent American writers, including six Nobel laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy...
...hour speech, the lawyer describedevidence that Christic Institute lawyers saypoints to an elaborate nationwide network offormer CIA and FBI operatives, governmentofficials, and independent civilians throughoutthe country...
...Iran Ajr gave the U.S. military a big lift. Defense Secretary Weinberger was elated as he hailed the operation: "We were capable, we were ready . . . and they ((U.S. forces)) did an extraordinary, skillful and difficult task very well." The successful military show was staged only a week after the FBI's seizure of a much wanted Shi'ite Muslim terrorist, Fawaz Younis, who was lured onto a yacht in the Mediterranean, seized and spirited off to stand trial in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner that carried four Americans among its 70 passengers and crew...
Thornburgh, who was appointed IOP director last June, also has been considered for several positions in the Reagan Administration, including director of the FBI...
There are other complications about bloodlines, old-boy and old-girl networks, the FBI and a touring orchestra backed by the CIA. All end in moral muddles that dramatically underscore the dilemma of ends and means. Higgins is no prude; he understands that evil can be a matter of degree, and he can live with the camel's nose in the tent. But in Outlaws he worries about the beast that decides to enter broadside...