Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million "confidential fund," which is supposed to be spent on informants. Hoover's top aides sometimes drew on the fund for lavish dinner parties, costing up to $500, at the Carriage House, a Georgetown restaurant. The only informing that took place at the blowouts was done by the agents themselves-no actual informants ever attended. Recalling one of the dinners, an agent told TIME: "It started with cocktails and crab meat, then there were oysters, followed by steak and wine and French pastries and brandy. When I got home, I was woozy. My doctor believed that I was having...
...investigators also learned that the FBI's exhibit section, which is supposed to assemble models of buildings for use as evidence in trials, refurbished houses for Hoover and other bureau officials free of charge. In the 1960s, for example, the section's carpenters added a porch worth several thousand dollars to Hoover's home...
...probing "black-bag jobs"-burglaries -conducted by FBI agents over the past five years. Meanwhile, FBI Director Clarence Kelley has started cleaning house. He fired Associate Director Nicholas P. Callahan, 62, the bureau's No. 2 executive, two weeks ago. During the last 13 years of the Hoover era, Callahan supervised both the "confidential fund" and the FBI Recreation Association treasury. "No one has said that I profited personally," Callahan declared. According to his defenders, he only carried out Hoover's orders...
...Chicago office for the past three years, Held is highly regarded by associates. Perhaps most important to Kelley, Held has spent most of his 35 years as an agent in the field, far from the snake pit that was the FBI's Washington headquarters during the Hoover years...
...formulating his economic policies, Reagan has relied heavily on the advice of Martin Anderson, who took a leave from his post as senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution to join Reagan's campaign full time at the start of the year (after the $90 billion proposal had been made). Anderson, who will turn 40 next week, served as the personal deputy of Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when Burns was a White House Counsellor to President Nixon. Reagan has also consulted some well-known economists, including Hendrik Houthakker of Harvard, a former member...