Word: hooverizer
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...F.B.I.: He is one of the few public figures with enough courage to take on J.Edgar Hoover. He recently took action to initiate a Senate investigation of the firing of an F.B.I. agent who had criticized Hoover's regime. Hoover accepted the agent's resignation "with prejudice." McGovern said of the incident, "Such vindictiveness is intolerable on the part of an important federal official...
Kunstler also accused FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover of fabricating the conspiracy charges both to destroy the radical left and to increase the strength...
...Hoover made his allegations against the Berrigans before a closed sessionof a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on November 27, 1970. He was requesting $14 million to train 1000 additional FBI agents...
...next day the Berrigans issued a statement through their lawyers demanding that Hoover either "prosecuteus or publicly retract the charges he has made...
...serious question the plan raises is whether it would do that anywhere except on Government organization charts. HEW was itself a product of Hoover-inspired accretion, but its example hardly inspires confidence; many, in fact, have proposed that it be broken down into smaller segments to make the maze more manageable...