Word: hooverness
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...Administrations begun by Richard Nixon and continued by Gerald Ford have had an astonishing record of high-level turnovers. The CIA has gone through three directors-Richard Helms, James Schlesinger and William Colby-and will soon have a fourth, George Bush. The FBI has had four chiefs: J. Edgar Hoover, L. Patrick Gray (acting), William Ruckelshaus (acting) and Clarence Kelley. The Office of Management and Budget (formerly the Budget Bureau) has had five directors: Robert Mayo, George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Roy Ash and James Lynn...
...John P. Mohr, who as the FBI's administrative chief was one of Hoover's most powerful lieutenants until he retired...
...that are being explored by a Senate subcommittee headed by Pennsylvania Republican Richard Schweiker and Colorado Democrat Gary Hart. Schweiker even suspects that Oswald might have had a formal connection with the bureau. The Senator's suspicions rest in part on the linguistic ruse Hoover used when asked by the Warren Commission about the bureau's links to Oswald. The director declared that "no FBI records could be found" of any connection; the careful wording has persuaded Schweiker that Hoover was hiding something. Further, the Senator believes Hoover may have been lying when he told the commission that...
...those Americans who, in its opinion, "might be willing to sell information to a foreign power." Eventually the FBI set up mail-inspection operations in eight cities, and its targets came to include antiwar demonstrators as well as people mailing pornography. Even though former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stopped the program in 1966, the FBI continued to receive information that the CIA had gathered in its mail openings...
...folk and moral rectitude that he heard from his grandfather, a voluble old sea captain, Lord fashioned Seth Parker out of pure homespun, introduced him in 1927, soon had an audience of 10 million. For the later, long-running (nine years) Gang Busters, he got permission from J. Edgar Hoover to use stories based on FBI files...