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...made the department into one of the most innovative in the U.S. Now President Nixon is calling Kelley, 61, to perform a similar service for the FBI, which has been badly compromised by the Watergate scandal and fractured by internal strife since the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover 13 months...
Kelley's three-decade record as a law enforcement officer has few blemishes, and his chances of confirmation as Hoover's successor by the Senate seem good. Some agents at FBI headquarters would have preferred that the new director come from within their present ranks and are skeptical about Kelley's ability to be independent of the White House. But his nomination pleases other senior FBI agents in the field offices. They still consider him one of their own-one, moreover, who was tainted by neither the in-house feuding during the late Hoover years...
Wrenches. In retrospect, it would have been far better for all concerned had Nixon either overruled or replaced Hoover, because the alternative he decided upon was to set up his own team of White House snoopers, answerable to only a handful of Administration officials. His subsequent problems can largely be traced to that single decision...
...Justice Department, the closest U.S. equivalent to a national police force. FBI has jurisdiction over wide range of crimes from assassination of a President to bank robbery, kidnaping and transportation of stolen cars. Since 1936, has had jurisdiction over espionage and sabotage within the U.S. J. Edgar Hoover, director from 1924 until his death last year, expanded FBI authority to in vestigate Communists, Ku Klux Klansmen, radical students and other ele ments he considered a threat to national security. The bureau's latest assign ment: getting to the bottom of the so-called Watergate scandal...
...came to the White House at the tail end of the effort to establish the special security unit [in July 1970]. They were fighting with [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover...