Word: mohr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...John P. Mohr, who as the FBI's administrative chief was one of Hoover's most powerful lieutenants until he retired...
...measure of Mohr's influence is the impressive attendance at the all-night poker parties that he gives at the Blue Ridge Club in the Shenandoah Valley near Harper's Ferry, W. Va. In the course of a separate civil suit unrelated to the probe of the Oswald note, Mohr last summer was forced to divulge a list of 39 people who attended some of the games last Nov. 29-30, April 4-5 and June 13-14. The roster included eleven former FBI officials and at least a dozen present officials, including Adams, Callahan, Dunphy and Jenkins...
Another guest was Joseph Tait, owner of a Washington firm, U.S. Recording Co., which quietly supplies wiretapping and bugging devices to the FBI and the CIA. In addition, Mohr's list contained the names of several past and present CIA employees, including James Angleton, the agency's former counter-intelligence chief, who retired under pressure last year because of charges that he directed some of the CIA's illegal domestic spying. The poker games were an important status symbol within the bureau. Said one FBI agent: "It means that the clique has accepted...
...Knightley is hard to please. After conceding that correspondents like Charles Mohr, Malcolm Browne and David Halberstam were "courageous and skilled," he criticizes them for only questioning the effectiveness of the war and not American intervention itself...
...Mohr, who retired in 1972 after nearly 40 years with the FBI, denies any knowledge of Oswald's note or its disappearance. So, too, do his former aides in the administrative division: Nicholas P. Callahan, James B. Adams and Eugene W. Walsh. The continuing FBI investigation is especially sensitive because these men now hold three of the bureau's five top jobs. Many agents, in fact, believe that the trio actually runs the FBI−with a little behind-the-scenes counsel from Mohr...