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...themselves. The task forces in each of twelve cities* might typically include four prosecutors, at least six agents from the FBI, six more from the DEA, three from the IRS and two from Customs. Until last year, the FBI steered clear of drug cases, largely because J. Edgar Hoover did not want his agents tempted by narcotics cash. But now 600 FBI agents are working on 1,100 drug investigations, and the bureau already has 326 convictions to its credit...
Teller's influence these days is indirect. A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he serves the Government only as a member of the Air Force scientific advisory board. But the highly hawkish views that have made him a suspect figure to many fellow scientists win him respect from the Reagan White House, where he is an honored guest. He was among the 13 scientists who dined at the mansion last week. More to the point, Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth, 31 years younger than Teller, has long admired the old lion...
...April 1970, according to the file, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover instructed some offices to watch Lennon and fellow Beatle George Harrison, who were then visiting the U.S. He advised his agents to look "for information indicating they are using narcotics." The bureau's wariness of Lennon mounted in December 1971 when he and Political Radical Jerry Rubin drew a crowd of 15,000 to a University of Michigan rally. Not long after that, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee suggested in a report to Attorney General John Mitchell that Lennon be deported. "If Lennon's visa is terminated...
Having Yuri Andropov in control of the Soviet Union is comparable to having had J. Edgar Hoover as President of the U.S. and director of both...
...White House curators say Hoover was first to have a phone permanently installed on his desk, though phones came to the White House in Rutherford B. Hayes' years...