Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court, when the charges were read to the three defendants, Gray defiantly shouted his answer: "Not guilty!" The other two entered similar pleas. They were all released on their own recognizance-a trial is not expected before fall-but they had to undergo the embarrassment of being mugged and fingerprinted, and having these documents added to the criminal files of the agency they once ruled...
Former bureau officials believe that Gray may have trapped himself in the alleged conspiracy when he gave his deputy, Felt, sweeping authority to do something about the Weathermen, and then failed to keep a sharp eye on Felt and the zealous Miller. Says one ex-FBI man: "You've got to remember that in those days Gray spent only three days a week in headquarters. He was out on the road, touring FBI offices, making speeches. He was almost totally preoccupied with the Watergate scandal during the limited time he spent in FBI headquarters. When requests for approval...
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...
...sometimes garish colors seemed to produce a falsification. If any world needed to be filmed in black and white, it was what French Writer David Rousset called I'univers concentrationnaire. All that obscenity transpired in an absence of color: ashes and smoke were gray, the SS uniforms black, the skin ash white, the bones white. Franz Stangl, the commandant of Sobibor, used to greet the trains wearing a white riding costume...
...Paul Gray...