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...were merely gifts that FBI Director Clarence Kelley has admitted receiving from some of his subordinates. Nevertheless, one Justice Department official has urged that Kelley be fired for accepting them; another has suggested that he be publicly reprimanded. President Ford has asked for a report from Attorney General Edward Levi, who submitted it at week...
...wrongdoing within the FBI. When the House Select Committee on Intelligence last year aired charges that FBI officials may have accepted kickbacks in the purchase of electronic equipment, Kelley's in-house investigation produced a wishy-washy report claiming that only bad judgment had been involved. Attorney General Levi ordered a new investigation, which apparently is on the verge of indictments...
Hobby House. The gifts to Kelley came to light as the Levi-ordered investigation probed the activities of the FBI's exhibit section, which prepares courtroom mock-ups of crime scenes. Dubbed "the Hobby House" or "Freeload Inc." by some agents, it had long provided minor home improvements for top FBI officials. As agents told of this work, John P. Dunphy, the head of the section, agreed to talk freely to the Justice Department about more serious misuse of Government funds and services. In return, the Justice Department permitted him to plead guilty to the minor indiscretion of having...
...gifts were presented to Kelley by the FBI'S "Executive Conference" on his birthday and on the anniversary of his appointment as director. The Executive Conference consists of 16 ranking FBI officials who chipped in some $15 each to honor Kelley. Members of the conference last week visited Levi to express "absolute support and confidence" in Kelley. None of them reminded Levi that they had sent the Attorney General about $30 worth of flowers recently on his wedding anniversary...
...been keeping more than his share of the Las Vegas boodle. Following another theory, some Senators who had once laughed at his jokes during his sessions on the Hill called on the Department of Justice to find out why he was murdered. U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi ordered the FBI to determine whether Johnny Roselli's testimony about the CIA plot to get Castro might somehow have led to his end in an oil drum bobbing on the surface of Dumfoundling...