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Attorney General Edward Levi let it be known that he considered the matter "extremely serious." To officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Levi's comment was a monumental understatement. "Extremely serious in a pig's eye," said one. "It's a disaster." What the officials were referring to was a new investigation ordered by Levi into charges of corruption in the FBI'S ranks-for the first time in the bureau's long and virtually corruption-free history...
...hints of FBI wrongdoing began circulating late last year, soon after the House Intelligence Committee learned that there might have been irregularities in the granting of FBI contracts. Then, two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times disclosed that Levi had rejected the FBI'S own investigation for not probing hard enough and demanded a brand-new inquiry, supervised directly by the Justice Department...
...Levi apparently became suspicious of the probers themselves after they decided at the end of an eight-week inquiry that Mohr had merely used bad judgment but had done nothing wrong. In the FBI, the men who supervised the investigation were known as "Mohr's clique." They included Associate FBI Director Nicholas P. Callahan, his two deputies, Thomas J. Jenkins and James B. Adams, Administrative Chief Eugene W. Walsh and Inspection Division Chief Harold W. Bassett...
...Levi's dramatic decision to start a second investigation, with entirely new inspectors, TIME has learned, represented a deliberate and unprecedented decision by the Attorney General to strip his top deputies of their authority over the case. According to some FBI agents, Levi's decision shook up the bureau far more than the recent congressional inquiries into abuses of the FBI'S power. "Look," explained one agent, "the guys who sanctioned that report are the bosses of the FBI. They supervise the investigations, administrations and internal inspections of the bureau-the whole shebang. If they goofed...
...proposed bill, which is to be presented to Congress this week, is the result of hard bargaining between Attorney General Edward Levi and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. There were helpful contributions from Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen, Liberal Democrats Gaylord Nelson and James Abourezk, Conservative Democrat John McClellan, Moderate Republican Charles Mathias and Conservative Republican Roman Hruska...