Smith,
R. Jeffrey, and Thomas W. Lippman. "Join the FBI, See the World."
Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 26 Aug.-1 Sep. 1996, 32. Smith,
R. Jeffrey, and Thomas W. Lippman. "Join the FBI, See the World."
Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 26 Aug.-1 Sep. 1996, 32.
The FBI plans to double its presence overseas over the next four years. The plan is to increase from 23 to 46 the number of foreign cities where the FBI maintains a permanent office. FBI special agents would increase from 70 to 129 and support personnel from 54 to 79. Despite several unresolved issues, among them a protocol between the FBI and CIA to avoid conflict over foreign operations, the plan generally has the support of Congress.
Summers,
Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: Putnam, 1993.
Ambrose, WPNWE, 1-7 March 1993: "Drawing on anonymous and hostile sources,... and relying heavily on innuendo, rumor, hearsay, and his own speculations,... Summers depicts FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a moral and political monster without a single redeeming feature.... Much of the material here is familiar, already covered in detail in Richard Gid Powers's 1978 biography.... But the two biographers are often in disagreement. Powers dismisses as 'preposterous' the charge that Hoover was responsible for the intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor; Summers devotes an entire chapter to it. In general, in my opinion, in areas of disagreement Powers's work is better researched and more reliable than Summers's. Except, perhaps, on the biggest disagreement of all...: the sex life of J. Edgar Hoover. Powers found no convincing evidence to prove the widely held belief that Hoover was a homosexual; Summers presents an abundance of evidence to show that he was.... Summers's most sensational charge is that Hoover was a transvestite. His source is Susan Rosenstiel."
Surveillant 3.1 notes that the "fact that Hoover created a smooth law enforcement machine out of a corrupt outfit is left briefly examined in this hostile exposé." The author "has included many half-baked innuendos, gossipy twiddle-twattle, and [every] third-hand smear he could find." Summers claims that "Dusko Popov ... had been sent to warn America that the Japanese were planning to attack the [Pearl Harbor] naval base.... [G]etting someone to give you a quote about a rumour does not make it true."
According to Wannall, Periscope 18.3, Hoover's "vilification rested upon..., principally, a British author [Summers] whose allegations against a previous American public servant (AFIO founder David Atlee Phillips), repeated in a London newspaper, resulted in open-court retraction, apology, and acknowledgement of the payment of a substantial sum in damages."
O'Reilly, Policy Studies Journal 21.3, comments that the stories of cross-dressing "may be true, but the 'he said/she said' sources don't prove it." NameBase identifies the author thusly: "Anthony Summers, based in Ireland and best known for his JFK assassination research...." [Enuf' said.]
Swearingen,
M. Wesley. FBI Secrets: An Agent's Exposé. Boston: South End Press,1995.
Surveillant 4.2 notes that several retired Bureau officials "have stated ... that portions of the book where they are mentioned contain significant inaccuracies, so readers are warned." Nonetheless, there are significant accusations in this book, including "many tales of institutionalized corruption" at the Bureau.
According to Namebase, the author "spent 25 years in the FBI.... Most of his career was spent on political cases.... Swearingen is the first agent to offer an explosive inside look at the FBI's COINTELPRO program."
Theoharis,
Athan G. J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime: An Historical Antidote. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 1995.
According to Surveillant 4.2, "Theoharis, a diligent historian and strong critic of the Bureau, examines recent claims about Hoover and calls them simplistic and probably false.... Recommended." Ellis, I&NS 12.2, finds this to be "a satisfying, sober and elegant demolition of sensational revelations about a figure who was tailor-made for conspiracy theorists."
Theoharis,
Athan G., ed. A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People's
Right To Know. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Theoharis,
Athan G., ed. From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover. Chicago:
Ivan R. Dee, 1991.
Surveillant 2.1 comments that Theoharis, who is one of the FBI's most persistent critics, "seeks to demonstrate the extent of FBI involvement in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups. Using recently uncovered documents from Hoover's 'Do-Not-File' files, Theoharis charges that Hoover was an 'indirect blackmailer.'"
Rosswurm, I&NS 7.4, sees the book as "a very important contribution to our growing knowledge of the FBI and its role in American society" and "a magnificent collection of documents."
Thomas, Pierre,
and Roberto Sura. "Halfway Around the World, Lure of Reward Triggered
FBI Undercover Effort to Capture CIA Suspect." Washington Post,
19 Jun. 1997, A1, A10-11. "Going Global to Get Their Man." Washington
Post National Weekly Edition, 23 Jun. 1997, 31.
On 15 June 1997, FBI agents captured Mir Aimal Kansi in a motel on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Kansi is accused of the murderous 1993 attack on motorists outside CIA headquarters. He was arraigned on murder charges on 18 June 1997 in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Tomlinson,
James E. "Foreign Counterintelligence: An FBI Priority." FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin, Sep. 1991, 10-14.
ProQuest: This article presents a "brief overview of the FBI's foreign counterintelligence mission."
Turner,
William W. Hoover's FBI: The Men and the Myth. Los Angeles, CA: Sherbourne Press, 1970. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993. [pb]
Petersen refers to to this book as a "[c]ritical account by a former agent," while Surveillant 3.2/3 notes that it was "[p]ublished to coincide with the release of ... Coppola's feature film on ... Hoover."
Wannall,
W. Raymond.
1. "Counterintelligence and Terrorism." Periscope 18, no. 6 (1993): 2.
"In the aborted bombing of U.N. Headquarters, New York City's Federal Building, and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, Hollywood could not have scripted a more perfect scenario to illustrate the importance to our lives and economy of counterintelligence operations."
2. "The FBI's Counterintelligence Role." Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene 11, no. 3 (1992): 1-3.
3. "The FBI's Domestic Intelligence Operations: Domestic Security in Limbo." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 4, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 443-473.
Watson, Pat. The FBI's Changing Missions in the 1990s. (Working Group on Intelligence Reform.)
Washington, DC: Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, 1992.
The author was Deputy Assistant Director, Intelligence Division, FBI.
Surveillant 3.1: "The paper discusses how the FBI has recast its mission in the face of the new international environment and changing U.S. national security policy."
Weiner,
Tim. "Spies Can't Even Trust Other Side to Follow the Rules These Days."
New York Times, 12 Nov. 1996, A1, A4 (N).
A retired Russian spy, Vladimir Galkin, was arrested by the FBI as he deplaned at Kennedy International Airport. The espionage charges against him date back to 1991. The Russians are not happy.
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