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Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) John Pistole visited the campus of Harvard Business School (HBS) yesterday to describe the bureau’s evolution in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001 and pitch the FBI’s new job opportunities to HBS students...
Sixty HBS students gathered in Aldrich Hall to hear Pistole’s talk. Pistole told the crowd that prior to 9/11, the FBI had 56 semi-autonomous field offices located throughout the United States. This lack of autonomy has since been examined as a factor related to the World Trade Center attacks, he said...
...discussing the importance of sharing information within the FBI, Pistole recalled his beginnings at the agency—a time prior to personal computers, when criminal information was logged on millions of three-by-five note cards located in field offices throughout the country...
While the FBI typically prides itself on staying outside of the public eye, he said the face of the FBI is currently transforming...
...about from my childhood. This was a few years before me, but there was a woman named Barbara Jane Mackle, who was an heiress who was kidnapped and buried alive in Duluth, Georgia, which is about 40 minutes from where I grew up. The kidnappers were ransoming her. The FBI finally found this woman, but she was trapped for two or three days, buried alive with a pipe. That's something that's always terrified me, just the idea of being buried alive. I wanted to explore that, and maybe put a little of my own twist...