Word: g-men
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...created Dick Tracy, the hawk- nosed dean of comic-strip detectives, and chronicled his adventures, syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes of law enforcement: J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. Gould's wonderfully nasty, physiognomically named villains--Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, the Brow--never got the better of his snap-brimmed hero...
Koch was unrepentant. He huffed to FBI Director William Webster that "others in the Federal Government" (meaning Weinberger) were out to "stifle my constitutional rights" by sicking the G-men on him. He insisted that the FBI investigation was less interested in finding the source of the disinformation than in muzzling him. Weinberger stoutly denied any connection with the investigation. "What a cheap shot," said a Weinberger aide. Federal officials said the probe stemmed from a stepped-up effort by the State Department to crack down on disinformation. After all the hubbub, the source of the transcript printed...
...carried federal agents to New Orleans, where Boston and Johnson live, and then on to rural Gallman, Miss., 30 miles south of Jackson. At a local farmhouse they found and arrested Boston. Wisely, she did not resist. Surrounding the house was a small army of 50 G-men, four SWAT teams, two tanks and, overhead, two helicopters. Another 50 agents and two more tanks were stationed near by. Boston, who prefers the name Fulani Sunni-Ali to what she calls her "slave name," is the minister of information for the R.N.A. The farmhouse was apparently used by the group...
...pilot was a hit with G-men, at least. At a screening at the bureau for some of them, the show won knowing nods and murmurs, rueful laughs of recognition, cheers and even shouts during the hot-pursuit finale...
...what was to be done? The G-men, no doubt, considered the alternatives. Assassination? Probably not. Simply identifying the leaders would be tough enough; the FBI's own reports attested to the whimsical shiftings of loyalties within the movement. True, Betty Friedan had started it all back in 1963, but the New Jersey housewife was hardly the frizzy-haired symbol of heterodoxy the FBI sought as the ideal exterminatee...