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...list showed that Clarence Kelley, who became FBI director in 1973, had either been misled by his colleagues or, as one of them suspected, been doublecrossed. Reason: for about a year, Kelley has been assuring everybody that in 1966 J. Edgar Hoover had ordered agents to stop using burglaries, known as "black bag jobs," to gather evidence in domestic cases. Since then, says Kelley, the FBI has resorted to break-ins only in a handful of investigations involving foreign spies in the U.S. As Malone's list demonstrated, however, the FBI kept conducting burglaries-the last...
...officials told TIME that as many as 150 agents had a hand in between 75 and 100 bag jobs. A few occurred before Hoover's death in May 1972, but many took place under Acting Director L. Patrick Gray, who resigned in disgrace during the Watergate scandal. Gray refused to comment, but Malone has acknowledged that the list "could have been" in his safe. Some FBI officials suspect that Gray was pressured by the Nixon White House to approve the use of bag jobs. As one agent explained the rationale: "These Weathermen were bomb throwers. The pressure...
...addition, the American Bar Association has once again given TIME the Certificate of Merit in its annual Gavel awards competition for legal reporting. Singled out were: "The Crime Wave," a cover story written by Jose M. Ferrer III, James Atwater and John Leo; "The Truth About Hoover," written by Ed Magnuson; and "Curbing It Without Killing It," a story on bringing the Federal Bureau of Investigation under control, written by Frank B. Merrick...
...left a prospering building-materials business for politics, "the noblest of careers," becoming New York State Democratic Secretary by 1928, when he managed F.D.R.'s successful gubernatorial race. In 1932 Farley steered Roosevelt's drive for the Democratic presidential nomination and his election victory over Herbert Hoover; armed with ample power and patronage as both national Democratic boss and Postmaster General, he masterminded an even bigger win for F.D.R. in 1936 against Alf Landon. After that, Old Pol Farley fell out with the patrician F.D.R. and his zealous New Dealer's, and in 1940 he quit...
...roman à clef was once a cosy affair. But one touch of TV makes the whole world kin. Readers will have no difficulty in making out the shaggy outlines of Presidents J.F.K., L.B.J., R.M.N., not to mention Henry Kissinger (Carl Tessler in the book), J. Edgar Hoover (Elmer Morse) and others, including, eventually, E. Howard Hunt (Lars Haglund), who (yes, indeed) is planted on President Monckton...