Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Hoover, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, yesterday advised cautious use of saccharin since it may be at least "weakly carcinogenic," and has shown no "measurable medical benefits...
...dramatic undercover attack on white collar crime also left no doubt about a shift in priorities since the death of its first and legendary director, J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover liked to put emphasis on the showy crimes of his youth: bank robberies and kidnaping. In the political area, he concentrated on spies and groups that he considered leftist. He did not at all mind his agents picking up scandal, mostly sexual, about members of Congress; but he filed it away to use as a club over legislators' heads, sometimes even informing the Congressman of what he knew (promising...
...post-Hoover era, Hoover's successors have sought to reform the agency. They banned such routine FBI tactics as illegal break-ins. First Clarence Kelley and then the current director, William Webster, steered the FBI away from such simple federal offenses as bank robbery into the more complex areas of white collar crime. This meant going undercover-and enduring the attacks that such operations can bring. Over the past two years, the FBI has been engaged in nearly 100 separate undercover operations -and with impressive results. Last year, these investigations produced 2,817 arrests, 1,372 convictions...
...moved away from the routine investigations of bank robbery and car theft that were popular under J. Edgar Hoover, it has plunged into the far more complex world of organized and white-collar crime and corrupt politicians. Evidence is much harder to obtain, cases that will stand up in court are much harder to build. So the agency has increasingly resorted to stings to produce the strongest possible proof of a crime. But police infiltration of the criminal world has always been a touchy area. Undercover agents often necessarily become parties to the commission of crime; so do paid informants...