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...target groups: those seeking radical social change. The documents stolen from the FBI resident agency in Media, Pa., and later released to the public by the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI make clear the way in which the FBI uses its identity to intimidate radicals. In a memo from FBI headquarters, agents were urged to increase the numbers of interviews they conducted with radicals, not for investigative purposes, but because it would "enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across that there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox...
...superiors shot back a memo accusing him of being "Native," and ordering him to continue the surveillance (Wall later resigned from the FBI because, he said, "the type of crushing of human relationships that resulted from our investigations was more than I could take."). It is obvious that the FBI hierarchy had already evaluated the school before assigning surveillance...
Blue Gem. A few days later, Hoover ordered Sullivan to take two weeks' leave. Sullivan wrote back that a one-week vacation was all he needed. The memo came back inscribed with what is known in the FBI as a "blue gem"-a handwritten note from the director. (Hoover is the only person in the FBI who uses blue ink, so that his messages are instantly recognizable. Other FBI officials use pencil, in part because if they approve a memo moving up the chain of command and then Hoover inks in his disapproval, they can erase their judgment...
...monthly passenger miles on the North Atlantic run. Talks with TWA about a possible merger, which Halaby once saw as the best route out of rough weather, have come to a halt. Two weeks ago Secor Browne, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, disclosed that he had sent a memo to White House Presidential Assistant Peter Flanigan, raising the possibility of a Government subsidy or a Lockheed-type guaranteed loan for the ailing carrier...
...memorandum written by Georgia Legislator Julian Bond seemed to support Muskie's opinion about nominating a black for Vice President. Circulated among black leaders, the memo observed that no Negro had emerged since Martin Luther King to speak for the black community. Rather than "putting all our eggs in one basket," Bond urged blacks to enter as many favorite sons and daughters as possible in the pre-convention primaries. This would draw out a maximum number of black voters, who could elect as many as 1,200 delegates to the Democratic convention. If the balloting is close, blacks will...