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...House Committee-and soon the Internal Revenue Service-focused on the role of John P. Mohr, an assistant director of the bureau, who retired in 1972. Mohr headed the office at the FBI that bought the equipment. He also had close ties to Tait, who was a regular at the poker games organized by Mohr at the exclusive Blue Ridge Club in West Virginia's Shenandoah Mountains; but last November the club and some of its records were destroyed in a fire whose origin is still undetermined...
Last fall, on the orders of FBI Director Clarence Kelley, the bureau began a further inquiry into Mohr's activities. TIME has learned that the probe was quickly suffocated by the impenetrable blanket of secrecy under which Mohr operated...
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...
...that FBI sources are certain that Hoover kept many highly sensitive files about newsmen, former White House aides and possibly even about Nixon. The records also included information on the drinking habits and personal lives of several Supreme Court Justices. But technically they were not called "secret files," so Mohr's denial of their existence is not perjurious. They were kept not in Hoover's private office but elsewhere in his suite, these sources believe...
...Mohr and Kiratli extinguished the fire before the firemen arrived...