Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...green felt-covered table. (As usual, however, the Russians arranged things so that the U.S. negotiators sat with the light in their eyes.) For one thing, Gromyko brought along Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, the Soviets' First Deputy Minister of Defense and chief of the Soviet general staff. His uniformed appearance was the first by a high-ranking military specialist at SALT negotiations since Gerald Ford met with Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974. Gromyko also brought a thick folder marked Pervaya Beseda (First Session). Noticing that Chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, on Vance's right, had only...
...Attorney General Griffin Bell, who is in charge of the FBI and who personally made the decision to indict the three men, was in Indianapolis to lecture the Indiana state bar association on his efforts at "holding the intelligence community to the rule of law," when he discovered that FBI agents there were preparing another demonstration against him. He promptly went to the local FBI office, where he confronted some 50 hostile agents and clerks. They presented him with a letter, signed by 100 agents, charging that "the FBI is being systematically destroyed for reasons unknown to us." Bell chided...
When Hoover died in 1972, Gray took over and immediately scotched a plan to promote Adams again. Instead, trying to rid the bureau of hard-core Hooverites, Gray ordered Adams out of headquarters, to the backwater office in San Antonio. (Many veteran agents believe that Adams urged Attorney General Bell to prosecute Gray for the Weatherman break-ins to even the score...
...investigation of itself was supervised by Callahan, Adams and another of Mohr's gambling buddies. After a two-month inquiry, the probers concluded that Mohr had done nothing wrong, the bureau's purchasing procedures were proper, and the games were just innocent social gatherings. Former Attorney General Edward H. Levi dismissed the findings as a whitewash and ordered the FBI to investigate again, under close Justice Department supervision. The second time around, the findings forced Kelley to discharge Callahan for misuse of FBI funds. Mohr, in retirement, was criticized, but Adams emerged unscathed...
...When President Carter and Attorney General Bell were about to name a new FBI chief, the bureau's investigation into Bert Lance's affairs, supervised by Adams, stalled for a number of days. At the time, an FBI official admitted the bureau was "holding back" and later confirmed the delay when he proclaimed, "We're going full blast now." There have been no suggestions that either Carter or Bell ordered the stall. The bureau apparently took it upon itself to delay on Lance in order not to offend the Administration...