Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reconsideration, however, prompted by the opposition of Director Hoover, the agencies were notified five days later that the approval had been rescinded...
...Edgar Hoover, urging him to use "maximum available resources" of his agency to investigate and predict riots. Angered at Johnson's refusal to allow wiretapping and electronic bugs against gangsters, Hoover balked. In fact, he proceeded to scrap many of the FBI'S more dubious but productive techniques, such as burglarizing the homes and monitoring the mail of suspected spies and criminals. Stymied by Hoover and realizing that not even the 8,700 agents of the FBI could cope with riots, the Johnson Administration turned to the U.S. Army as a tool of massive retaliation, giving...
Throughout those early Nixon years, Administration officials were at loggerheads with Hoover over the function of the FBI. They wanted Hoover to concentrate much more heavily on radical political organizations and black nationalists, and less on common criminals and old left subversives. What the Administration sought would have required intense FBI coverage of campuses across the U.S. Early in 1970, the White House asked the FBI whether rioting and violence were being directed by foreign countries. The FBI simply could not answer the question...
...Hoover's strictures had hindered the FBI in shifting its attention from watching over familiar and predictable Communist agents and Mafia gangsters to keeping track of radical free agents and anarchists, who were structured in no national pattern...
Before giving up on the FBI, the Administration had one last fight with Hoover. In June 1970, Nixon brought together the directors of the nation's various security agencies to work out a plan for increased surveillance not only of the New Left but also of the Arab terrorists and Weatherman-style anarchists who were blowing up buildings across the country...