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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate drama was a profound affirmation of the faith that the Declaration of Independence places in ordinary citizens. For him, "the most moving scene" occurred when Watergate grand jurors-"a fair cross section of men and women, black and white"-were polled one at a time by Judge John J. Sirica about whether they wished to subpoena the taped conversations of President Nixon. "I wondered whether they would stand firm. Each one did. Now suppose Roger Sherman had walked into that courtroom at that time. Would he not have said, 'This is just the way it should happen. Here...
...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...
...dispatched twelve special investigators to New York to determine who was responsible for the burglaries. Agents have nicknamed the force "the Dirty Dozen," but the investigators soon turned up another cache of FBI documents concerning the bag jobs. At least 20 agents including Malone and Assistant Director Andrew J. Decker face possible charges of burglary and conspiracy to violate civil rights, and have hired lawyers. Decker has retained the celebrated Edward Bennett Williams. But the most lasting damage was to Kelley's credibility and his efforts to buff up the bureau's tarnished image...
...FINGAL by JOHN TRUMBULL 44 pages. J. Almon. 1 shilling...
...Dolores J. Katz, medical reporter for the Detroit Free Press; Alfred S. Larkin Jr., assistant metropolitan editor for The Boston Globe; John E. Painter Jr., staff writer for The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.; Barbara A. Reynolds, urban affairs writer for the Chicago Tribune; and Paul Solman, associate editor and reporter for The Real Paper have also been chosen...