Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaflet is signed "Hoover, Director, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Director J. Edgar Hoover, in a widely-reprinted article written for the June, 1971 issue of Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, warned that "the shadows of pro-Peking subversion are daily becoming a more serious problem in this country...
Sullivan left Washington on Sept. 13, and Hoover moved immediately to choose his successor. He settled on Alex Rosen, chief of the FBI's General Investigative Division. By the time Sullivan returned to Washington, Rosen was occupying his office. On Oct. 1 Sullivan put himself on "sick leave." That same day, the locks were changed in his office and his name plate removed from the door. On Oct. 2, the FBI announced that Sullivan had retired voluntarily...
...Sullivan had believed that Hoover would be eased out by January, there was now speculation that he would be around for another year or more. It was evident that Hoover, long a master of federal bureaucracy, had managed to swing the Administration back to his side. The Justice Department did one thing for Sullivan. Asked about the FBI announcement that he had retired voluntarily, a department official replied: "That was a Hooverian lie." It was little comfort to Sullivan, who reluctantly gave up his long fight on Oct. 6 and resigned...
...Sullivan-Hoover battle was more than simply an internal bureaucratic feud, and more even than a controversy over different approaches to intelligence operations. It raised serious questions about a secretive, enormously powerful Government agency under dictatorial rule, operating on its own, answerable to no authority except the judgments -or whims...