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...convinced yet that wholesale change here is either necessary or desirable." So says L. Patrick Gray III after one month on the job as acting director of the FBI. Wholesale they may not be, but some changes have already been made in the post-Hoover era-largely for the better...
...weeding process of Hoover's longtime cronies in the bureau continues. Last week Joseph J. Casper, 53, assistant director in charge of training and a 31-year veteran, announced his early retirement; he is the fourth man to resign from the top FBI ranks since Hoover's death. Gray has also purposefully made himself visible and accessible, opening the FBI'S doors to the press and patching up relations with those law enforcement officials with whom the aging Hoover had developed feuds...
...Safe Streets Act of 1968 already stipulates that new directors of the FBI must be confirmed by the Senate, thus providing one review. But Congress should inspect the bureau's budget and operations on a continuing basis, instead of unquestioningly rubber-stamping appropriations as it did in Hoover's time. Certainly the director's term should be fixed by law in order to prevent another man from establishing a life tenure...
...Last week, however, clairvoyance of a kind embarrassed the magazine. A satiric, fictional obit, prepared last month, reported that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was dead, but was being kept on in office by the Administration. The issue appeared on newsstands the very day Hoover died...
Died. J. (for John) Edgar Hoover, 77, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly half a century (see THE NATION...