Word: hoover
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...years, under eight Presidents, J. Edgar Hoover has presided over the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He will be 76 on New Year's Day, but the prickly views on everything from his former bosses to the "jackals of the press," the frank prejudices, the devotion to the bureau pour forth with undiminished vigor. On the wall of his office is a mounted sailfish whose staring eyes are as steely as the chiefs own. There Hoover discussed a variety of topics with TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer. Excerpts from the interview...
...celebrated meeting between the two men occurred Dec. 1, 1964, after Hoover called King "the most notorious liar in the country" for advising civil rights workers, to avoid making complaints to FBI men because they were Southerners, and King then suggested that Hoover had "faltered" under the burdens of office...
Local courts soon acquitted or dismissed the charges against nearly all the defendants. But the Justice Department used the incident as a reason to investigate a nascent radical group called the Seattle Liberation Front. Last spring FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover personally announced federal indictments against eight S.L.F. members. Though none of them had been arrested at the demonstration, all were charged with conspiring to damage federal property; five were also accused of crossing state lines with the intention of causing a riot. It was the Government's first use, since the Chicago trial, of the 1968 federal antiriot...
...Then Hoover turned to the Black Panther Party, warning that the newly opened Panther office in Algiers was a symbol of growing ties between the radical group and Arab terrorists. Hoover added that "militants may seek to ape Arab tactics, including airplane hijackings, to gain release of jailed Panther members...
William Kunstler and the Rev. William C. Cunningham, the Berrigan brothers' lawyers, contended that Hoover had fabricated a "farfetched spy story" for the purpose of securing his appropriation. If Hoover had evidence to support his charge, said the attorneys, it would be his duty to seek prosecution. Presumably he would do just that...