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During the late 1960s, the Bureau doggedly insisted upon holding its amateur standing within intelligence ranks. As a result of that stance, coupled with its childish fights with its sister-service, the CIA, foreign intelligence services (always present in the Cambridge area but normally functioning within passive as proposed to active postures) began to appear on a somewhat aggressive basis on the fringes of the New Left field of activity. The CIA watched but took little if any action; the Bureau didn't even bother to do a thorough job of watching...
Gill added that the FBI engaged in "childish fights with its sister-service, the CIA," adding that the two intelligence networks "continuously battled one another for primeval territorial jurisdiction...
...either side of his family. His father was a piano salesman who eked out a precarious living. His mother played the piano passably, and Coward acknowledged that he was linked to her with "an umbilical cord of piano wire." By the time Noël donned his first childish sailor suit, Mrs. Coward had discovered her vocation: stage mother. The average mother is content to believe that her son is bright; the stage mother has a fanatical conviction that her son is a genius. With no discernible difficulty, Mrs. Coward instilled this unshakable faith...
FROM the start, the Nixon Administration's handling of the political-espionage scandal in Washington's Watergate complex last June has been amazingly inept. If Watergate had been a childish antic by a few misguided Nixon zealots, as presidential aides insisted, quick and candid disclosure of all the facts would have rendered it a brief summertime sensation. If it was more serious and involved officials close to Nixon, as now seems plain, those implicated should have been exposed and fired. At worst, Nixon's re-election margin might have been less grand. But high Republican and White...
Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, denounced Astros manager Leo Durocher as "childish" yesterday for calling his players out of a meeting for practice. Miller had been explaining the terms of the new agreement between players and managers...