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I just finished reading a book called The Director by Paul Latersky. It's the memoirs of an FBI agent who began his career as an office assistant working for old J Edgar in headquarters back in the 60s. He eventually finished law school, went to Quantico, and became an agent. He tells some interesting tales.

I did not know until I read this that interstate truck hijacking rings were quite well organized back then. (They could be quite vicious as well. Mr Latersky escaped death narrowly during a bust.) Busting a truck hijacking or interstate stolen property ring was quite a feather in an agent's cap back then. Hoover relished telling Congress the amount of stolen property the Bureau recovered. The Hoover FBI was actually a small operation by modern standards, and there may have been years where the value of stolen property recovered exceeded the FBI's annual budget.

I have a feeling that faced with theft on the scale of these smash and grabs, old J Edgar would have demanded scalps, and agents who brought in the ringleaders would have been rewarded with commendations and promotions.

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I just finished reading a book called The Director by Paul Latersky. It's the memoirs of an FBI agent who began his career as an office assistant working for old J Edgar in headquarters back in the 60s. He eventually finished law school, went to Quantico, and became an agent. He tells some interesting tales.

I did not know until I read this that interstate truck hijacking rings were quite well organized back then. (They could be quite vicious as well. Mr Latersky escaped death narrowly during a bust.) Busting a truck hijacking or interstate stolen property ring was quite a feather in an agent's cap back then. Hoover relished telling Congress the amount of stolen property the Bureau recovered. The Hoover FBI was actually a small operation by modern standards, and there may have been years where the value of stolen property recovered exceeded the FBI's annual budget.

I have a feeling that faced with theft on the scale of these smash and grabs, old J Edgar would have demanded scalps, and agents who brought in the ringleaders would have been rewarded with commendations and promotions.

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I just finished reading a book called The Director by Paul Latersky. It's the memoirs of an FBI agent who began his career as an office assistant working for old J Edgar in headquarters back in the 60s. He eventually finished law school, went to Quantico, and became an agent. He tells some interesting tales.

I did not know until I read this that interstate truck hijacking rings were quite well organized back then. (They could be quite vicious as well. Mr Latersky escaped death narrowly during a bust.) Busting a truck hijacking or interstate stolen property ring was quite a feather in an agent's cap back then. Hoover relished telling Congress the amount of stolen property the Bureau recovered. The Hoover FBI was actually a small operation by modern standards, and there may have been years where the value of stolen property recovered exceeded the FBI's annual budget.

I have a feeling that faced with theft on the scale of these smash and grabs, old J Edgar would have demanded scalps, and agents who brought in the ringleaders would have been rewarded with commendations and promotions.

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And add the latest revolver article and it’s worse than I could gave imagined…

https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/

Be nice if the GOP did something…

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