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Beyond that, one of the stolen documents dealt with a Moscow, Idaho, Boy Scout leader named Thomas Ingerson who had requested visas from the Soviet embassy for his troop to make a Russian tour this summer. Another file contained a directive from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, saying in part: "Increased campus disorders involving black students pose a definite threat to the nation's stability and security and indicate need for increase in both quality and quantity of intelligence information . . . [concerning such] groups which are targets for influence and control by the violence-prone Black Panther party and other...
...underground, has made the FBI's most-wanted list, the magazine observed proudly. "We're sure," it added, "that her gratitude to any classmate who can furnish her current mailing address would be unbounded." That sort of information might even pry a contribution out of J. Edgar Hoover (George Washington University...
Effective Manager. As was true of another noted Republican before him, Herbert Hoover, history would have treated Dewey more kindly if he had never run for President. The son of an Owosso, Mich., newspaper publisher, Dewey was educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. After winning third place in a national contest as a college baritone, he studied voice in New York City, considered an operatic career (Critic Deems Taylor liked Dewey's voice but said he sang without "enough impulse"). Instead Dewey settled on law and swiftly achieved prominence. A skilled trial lawyer who could wither...
...Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, was the author of another document dated November 4, 1970 which urged the "immediate" and "discreet" investigation of black student groups on college campuses...
...first memo, a December, 1970 directive from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, called for increased surveillance of black student unions and other black groups on campuses. The other memo, entitled "New Left Notes- Philadelphia- Edition One" concerned the travel and fees of student informers...