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...former Assistant Attorney General, he is known to be appalled at the continuing revelations of White House involvement in the Watergate coverup. He does not expect to serve more than two months, said Ruckelshaus, and he does not want to be considered as a permanent replacement for J. Edgar Hoover...
This is the story of Dwayne Hoover, a Pontiac dealer in Midland City, U.S.A. As Kurt Vonnegut explains on the opening page, Hoover is "on the brink of going insane." He has many reasons of the traditional kind: his wife went mad and killed herself by swallowing Drano; his hostile son is a homosexual who plays piano in a cocktail lounge; and his mistress, of whom he wants to know "what life is all about," suggests that the site across from their motel room would be a good place for him to buy her a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken...
...rigidity of J. Edgar Hoover's policy forbade the creative individuality so vital to the effective structure of an intelligence operation. Agents, overloaded with work, were instructed to relegate security intelligence procedures to the lowest possible realm of importance. Thus, since criminal procedures took obvious precedence, abysmal gaps formed within the Bureau office itself. The field picture was even more dismal. Uninformed agents, without any field intelligence training whatsoever, insisted upon ordering the informants' strategic moves, demanding absolute obedience. This resulted in a staggering attrition rate among Bureau informants. Those who succeeded in the field owed their success to outright...
...rigidity of J. Edgar Hoover's policy forbade the creative individuality so vital to the effective structure of an intelligence operation," Gill wrote. (See page...
William Loeb, the conservative New Hampshire publisher, approached Hoover and probably the CIA through Cleveland and other Washington officials to insure that Gill was paid, although he said he never...