Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starring the former criminal hero, James Cagny) and You Can't Get Away With It educated the screen audience about the omniscience and implacability of the Bureau and its Director. War on Crime, a comic strip drawn by a close personal friend of Hoover's, drew on FBI files for its plots. A highly successful radio series, The FBI--In Peace and War, captivated a nationwide listening audience. Thousands of children sent in boxtops for Junior G-Man badges and pictures of Hoover...
...campaing was a bananza for the entertainment industry, the newspapers, and the FBI. FBI pictures were guaranteed a wide audience; Pictures of Hoover eating a 'G-Man Sandwich' at Toots Shor's were great filler for the Saturday editions; the FBI became a cultural ideal...
...retains veto power over all casting, a Special Agent takes part in all the series's script conferences and is permanently assigned to supervise the shooting, and the final scripts are sent to Washington for approval. Hoover watches the show faithfully, and he told a Congressional subcommittee that he felt, the show was useful in maintaining the Buerau's image. When Sen. John Pastore (D-R.I.) began an inquiry into the effects of violence on television. Hoover called producer Quinn Martin, and the violence on "The FBI" dipped: "We have made an adjustment," Martin said later...
...social control and phone tapping image projection used against radical groups is the mission of the vast political intelligence apparatus of the FBI. Hoover began gathering political intelligence after an order in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt charging him to prepare for war by amassing information on groups likely to commit sabotage in the event of war. John Elliff termed this order the "Magna Carta of domestic intelligence." Hoover has operated on its authority ever since...
...Bureau has for years published an FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, directed at local police officials and rural sheriffs (the Bulletin is not to be shown to laymen, and carries a warning to that effect in each issue; it is intended for policemen alone). The Bulletin includes articles by Hoover and his associates along with tips on scientific crime detection, political analyses with a law-and-order theme (one recent issue carried an article by Supreme Court nominee Lewis F. Powell), and plugs for the FBI's police aid and training programs such as the FBI National Crime Information Center...