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...post-Hoover era, Hoover's successors have sought to reform the agency. They banned such routine FBI tactics as illegal break-ins. First Clarence Kelley and then the current director, William Webster, steered the FBI away from such simple federal offenses as bank robbery into the more complex areas of white collar crime. This meant going undercover-and enduring the attacks that such operations can bring. Over the past two years, the FBI has been engaged in nearly 100 separate undercover operations -and with impressive results. Last year, these investigations produced 2,817 arrests, 1,372 convictions...
...York City, readily approved. He had long wanted to press harder against white-collar crime. But Welch also needed higher approval, first from Francis M. ("Bud") Mullen Jr., a Washington superior in charge of all FBI investigations into white-collar and organized crime. Finally, Director Webster's approval was needed...
...minute, what you are suggesting may be illegal." Pressler quickly rejected any idea of a donation and walked out of the house. Later, FBI Director Webster called the Senator to say he had performed "beautifully" on the FBI'S video tape. Commented Pressler: "I find it somewhat repulsive that I'm on tape, but now I'm called a hero. It's a sad state of affairs when it's heroic to turn down a potential bribery situation." The fallout from Abscam was indeed a serious matter. Along with the further erosion of public confidence...
Bundling as defined by Webster's: an unmarried couple's occupying the same bed without undressing, esp. during courtship...
...attendance at this Donovan dinner, the twelfth since 1962, is unusually large. The crowd of more than 400 includes not only OSS veterans and friends and family members but eight Senators, FBI Director William Webster and two wartime spymasters who went on to head the CIA, Richard Helms and William Colby. The old espionage hands come partly out of nostalgia for a simpler age of spying, before cold wars and dirty tricks scandals and congressional oversight committees. There is also a perceptible closing of the ranks behind the nation's now-beset intelligence establishment...