Bureau The Secret History of the FBI

The Bureau Reveals: * The first definitive evidence that J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed Congress with information from his secret files. * The source of Senator Joseph McCarthy's bogus claim that there were 205 Communists in the State Department. * The FBI's secret kidnapping of Soviet agents believed to be privy to KGB secrets. * Details of the FBI's tapes of Martin Luther King's sex orgies. * The truth about Hoover's sexual orientation and his relationship with Clyde Tolson. * A mysterious meeting between Bob Woodward and W. Mark Felt, suggesting that the former FBI official was Deep Throat. * The FBI's routine discoveries of Israeli wiretaps on phone lines of foreign diplomatic establishments in New York. * Techniques used by the FBI to break into embassies to plant electronic bugs. * Louis Freeh's colossal mismanagement of the bureau, which contributed to the problems at the FBI laboratory, the indictment of Wen Ho Lee, the fiasco involving Richard Jewell, the continued spying of Robert Hanssen, the failure to turn over documents relating to Timothy McVeigh, and the FBI's counterterrorism failure before the attacks by al-Qaeda. * An order by Freeh to jail James Nichols in the Oklahoma City bombing case when there was insufficient evidence to charge him. When told that by the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) in Detroit, Freeh said that if the SAC did not proceed with charges, he would replace him. A judge finally freed Nichols a month later. * Leaks by Freeh's staff to enhance his image, even while FBI agents could not use bureau cars because money to buy gasoline had run out. Computers were so antiquated that charities would not accept them, and they slowed the FBI's response to the attacks of September 11. * Robert Mueller's efforts to correct the problems created by Freeh, moving the FBI toward being as effective as it was under William Webster.Kessler, Ronald is the author of 'Bureau The Secret History of the FBI' with ISBN 9780312304027 and ISBN 0312304021.