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Circumstances aided Ungar, a former Crimson editor, who took leave from his Washington Post staff duties to work full-time on a study of the FBI. The new FBI director Clarence Kelley, installed just three months before, saw nothing wrong with granting Ungar personal interviews and nearly total access to the personnel he needed to write a comprehensive work. Ungar took full advantage of that privilege and has gotten the most out of the hundreds of interviews he has conducted. Through the very effective technique of mass interviewing with the understanding that the sources' names would not be published, Ungar...
...appear the apologist, a cautious Ungar presents an almost gratuitously ugly picture of Kelley--as if to say, 'My integrity hasn't been compromised by the director's willingness to open the doors.' He gives two theories about Kelley, each of which the director is likely to find uncomplimentary. One paints Kelley as "Simple Clarence" totally capitulating to the "old-guard, old shoe" types and the "unswerving Hooverites." The other is "Kelley as Machiavellian" which depicts the director as manipulating his staff to get his own way. The problem with this type of theorizing is that time, not conjecture, will...
...unlike Kelley, Ronan feels the role of the woman in the Church is indeed being recognized. "It's not happening in such a way as to make the front page but from year to year the mentality is slowly changing," Ronan said...
...efforts of Griffin, Kelley and Bohn have not been totally forsaken in this period of new spiritualism. The board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Center, still angry over Madeiros' actions, felt it was necessary to appoint a minister who would supplement the Cardinal's appointments and thus avoid a complete change in the nature of the ministry. To this end Mary Roodkowsky, a degree candidate at the Divinity School, was named last spring as a lay chaplain...
...Kelley adds, "The three of us and people we served were Vatican II inspired Catholics and I guess we were a bit naive in the way we thought we could effect change...