When FBI agents gather
In cities everywhere.
The place is not important
They really do not care.
But Mystery Writers always,
Are never really cheery.
They meet in just one city,
It's called the town of Erie.
And Plastic Surgeons have to
When they release the cork.
You'll find them in a township
They call, Scarsdale, New York.V
Accountants are no different,
They watch close all their shillings.
And gather in a hamlet...
That's called the town of Billings.
The Egotist, they are quite grand,
Look down on those inferior.
They have to meet in just one place,
The place is called Superior.
Voyeurs are a nasty lot,
A secret place they seek a..
Quantico won't accept them
They meet down in Topeka.
Conventions are a lot of fun
Girl lawyers often pretty...
It really makes me mad to know
They meet there in Sioux (Sue) City.
NEW LUNCH SPOT - Monday, September 9, 1996, we will meet at the HomeTown Buffet, 5101 N. Oracle (next to Black Angus). This change is due to fact that the first Monday is Labor Day and a major holiday.Mark your Calendars. NOW. USE $1.00 Senior discount card when paying for your meal. This will save you .50 each month. Will need $1.00 for gratuity at end of meal. See Vice Chairman Ken Hermann.
ANNUAL DUES - are again due...Please mail or bring a check for $15. Make check out to "Tucson Chapter-X FBI." Mail to our Treasurer Bob Keefe: PO Box 16096, Tucson, AZ 85732.
BILL & EILEEN PRICE - Welcome to Tucson and the Tucson Chapter. Bill spent most of his career in Seattle/Spokane. Now resides at 5160 N. Amapola Way, Tucson, AZ. 86745. Give them a call at 743-4830.
KERMIT JOHNSON - was recently taken to St. Joseph's Hospital where he is recuperating. Give him a call.
INTERNET CYBERFEDS - Who have access to the Internet (WWW) take a look at the Society Home Page: http://www.primenet.com/~tomm98/Society. index.html For Registration Form for Atlanta Convention: print out... http://www.primenet.com/~tomm98/Atl.skyline.html
PHOENIX CHAPTER - will also meet on September 9, 1996 for lunch. RON JENNINGS a Phoenix chapter member is now an AUSA in Jacksonville, FL. JACK HINCHCLIFFE AND PAUL MORTISON are running for political office, and PHILIP L. MILLER, JEAN ANDERSON AND FRANK MOWREY have all retired from the Phoenix FBI office recently.
BICS - Background Investigation Contract Service program has been finally approved nation wide. . Retired agents started conducting background investigations here in Tucson. Involved in the program are the following: ALT, BAGLEY, BERTICIL, COLE, HERMANN, MCGORRAY and PRICE.
GET WELL SOON - Jim Ader, Bob Davis, Kermit Johnson, Harry Lindawood, Mary Moffett, Laura Nelson.
DICK & HELEN STEPHENS - celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in January in Green Valley. Their family reunion was attended by their four sons and their wives and 15 grandchildren. Photos appeared in the August issue of the Grapevine.
NATIONAL CONVENTION - this year will be held in Atlanta, GA., September 25-29, 1996. Over 600 persons had already registered for this convention. Registration Forms are available in your Grapevine or check the Internet at: http://www.primenet.com/~tomm98/Atl.skyline.html
E-MAIL ADDRESS - If you have an E-Mail address, please send Tom a message at [email protected].
JACK EGNOR - is acting as a technical consultant for an upcoming movie entitled "Conair," based on his experience handling bombing and plane hijacking cases while in the FBI.
NEW TUCSON OFFICERS - for the coming year are as follows:
Chairman - Tom McGorray Vice Chairman/Secretary - Ken Hermann Treasuer - Robert Keefe
PHOTOS NEEDED - for this publication. Do you have some old snap shots of the FBI in 1942? We�d like to see them and share them with our readers. Originals will be returned. Thanks.
Editor's - New Officers - 1996-1997
Chairman - Tom McGorray
Vice Chairman/Secretary - Ken Hermann
Treasuer - Robert Keefe
A bill intended to fight foreign economic espionage against U.S. companies has been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee and sent to the full Senate. The bill would make it a federal crime to steal proprietary information from a company and would impose fines of up to $10 million for such thefts. ``This bill targets foreign intelligence services that take aim at American companies and at the people who walk out of businesses with millions of dollars worth of information,'' Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin, said in a statement Thursday. The FBI recently testified that at least 23 foreign countries were engaged in economic espionage against U.S. companies, but did not identify them. Kohl said there is no current criminal law that would apply to many of the cases the FBI was investigating.
A Republican congressman suggested recently that the FBI may have been a White House puppet when it tipped off aides that Congress had obtained an FBI file mentioning first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. ``Is the FBI becoming a police puppet for the potential lawbreakers in the White House?'' Representative Bob Livingston of Louisiana, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, asked at a news conference.
He said the FBI had not tipped off the White House about information Congress obtained in previous inquiries and should not have done so in the investigation of the White House's obtaining of hundreds of FBI files. The files were obtained by ``political hacks'' in the White House for political purposes, presumably to search for dirt against Republicans, he said.
President Clinton and other Democrats have said the FBI files on former White House aides, mostly Republicans, appeared to have been obtained in an honest mistake. Besides tipping off the White House, Livingston said, the FBI sent two agents to talk to the former agent who wrote the report mentioning Mrs. Clinton, Dennis Sculimbrene. Livingston said he considered the purpose of that visit was ``to threaten and intimidate him.'' It was the latest blast from both Republican members of Congress and the White House over FBI handling of the statement that was made public on the House floor Thursday.
The statement, in the FBI agent's interview, quoted former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum as saying Craig Livingstone, the aide who resigned because of the FBI files affair, ``had come highly recommended to him by Hillary Clinton, who has known his mother for a longer period of time.''
The White House said the statement was completely false because Nussbaum never talked to the FBI agent and Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Livingstone agree they are not acquainted. The White House said it had complained to the FBI about its handling of the file in a way that allowed Clinger to disclose the statement to Congress and the public. >P>
Two more former Ku Klux Klan members were indicted on charges of helping burn a South Carolina church attended mainly by blacks after two co-conspirators pleaded guilty to the same crime.
A federal grand jury issued a 20-count indictment against Arthur Haley, 51, and Hubert Rowell, 50, for the arson last year. Both remained in custody as Rowell's arraignment and bond hearing were deferred to give his court-appointed lawyer time to review the case. Haley, who surrendered and pleaded not guilty, was denied bail. The defense tried to persuade the court that Haley would not flee, saying he was an acute agoraphobic and leaving his trailer home caused panic attacks so severe that he quit his welding job and has been on disability for three years.
`There are some days he can't even go outside his house. If he were going to flee the jurisdiction he would not be here today,'' lawyer Dale Cobb said, emphasizing that Haley had voluntarily turned himself in, whereas Rowell was arrested. But the prosecutor depicted Haley as a danger to the community and a threat to potential witnesses in the case and U.S. District Judge Robert Carr apparently agreed.
The indictment followed guilty pleas by two other former members of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Gary Cox and Timothy Welch, for setting fire to the Macedonia Baptist Church in Bloomville, South Carolina, and the Mt. Zion AME church in Greeleyville.
The indictment said Haley and Rowell conspired with Cox and Welch to set fire to the Macedonia Baptist Church June 21, 1995. The Mt. Zion church was burned the following day.
It alleged that Haley selected the church to be burned and Rowell mixed the flammable liquids used for the fire, which Cox and Welch started. Haley and Rowell were also charged with setting fire to a migrant workers camp and burning the car of a black resident of Manning, South Carolina. Cox and Welch agreed to cooperate with the investigation of the fires, according to U.S. Justice Department officials.
The indictment alleges that the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan advocated white supremacy and taught its members that black churches promoted the interests of blacks over whites. A Klan lawyer said the group did not advocate church burning and should not be held responsible for the fires.
The FBI and other federal and state agencies were investigating more than 70 fires at churches since the start of 1995, many of them at black churches in the South. Investigators say they have found no nationwide conspiracy but believe many of the fires were racially motivated.
The courtroom was packed with media and family members, including Haley's wife and sister who sobbed when the judge refused to release him. Cobb said Haley had resigned from the Klan because of its activities.
The FBI plans to nearly double its overseas presence over the next four years in an effort to combat international terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking, The Washington Post reported. Under the plan sent to congressional committees earlier this summer, FBI agents would be stationed in 46 cities abroad, compared with 23 now, the newspaper said in today's editions. The expansion would cost $80 million through the year 2000. The number of FBI special agents in foreign posts would rise from 70 to 129, with support personnel growing from 54 to 70, the Post said. The overseas agents, assigned alone or in pairs, work out of U.S. embassies with foreign law enforcement agencies on criminal matters involving Americans.
While there has been scattered opposition within the government to the expansion of the FBI presence, the proposal is attracting support on Capitol Hill, the Post said. In recent crime legislation, Congress approved the first four of the 23 cities on the expansion list -- Beijing, China; Islamabad, Pakistan; Tel Aviv, Israel, and Cairo, Egypt. Among other cities on the list are New Delhi, India; Lima, Peru; Buenos Aries, Argentina; Lagos, Nigeria; and Pretoria, South Africa. At an appearance in Duluth, Ga. today, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the United States should step up efforts to use spies to uncover terrorist plots and adopt a ``doctrine of preemption'' to strike at terrorists before they can attack. `We don't wait around until after they take out the World Trade Towers with a nuclear weapon next time,'' he told a meeting of business leaders.
`We go ahead and say, `We have a reason to think you're not behaving correctly. You should convince us in the next 24 hours we're wrong, or we will take you out.''' Gingrich said it may be necessary to create a ``terrorist court'' to determine whether there was enough evidence to justify a preemptive strike. Or the decision could be left to the president and defended later, he added. ``You would do whatever it took,'' Gingrich, R-Ga., told reporters after his speech. `It might well be totally covert. It might be done by the CIA. it might be done by the military... But you wouldn't wait for the damage to occur and people to be killed.''
A former FBI agent who worked in the Clinton White House said recently, that the man at the center of the improper acquisition of nearly 900 confidential personnel files from the FBI was hired at the insistence of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gary Aldrich, a 25-year agent in the FBI, said that William F. Kennedy III, who was an associate White House counsel at the time, asked him in 1993 whether the bureau would have any problems naming Craig Livingstone as head of the White House security office. Aldrich said he voiced several objections about the appointment but was then stunned to hear Kennedy reply: "It doesn't matter. It's a done deal. Hillary wants him." "I felt sandbagged," Aldrich said in the interview. "Why was he drawing me out and tricking me into saying those things if Craig had to be kept on?" Kennedy denied that the conversation took place.
Aldrich said Livingstone did not have the proper experience for the job and had problems in his own FBI background report that would make him unsuitable to head an office that evaluated other people's character issues. Aldrich, who retired from the FBI in 1994, gives an account of this conversation with Kennedy in a new book he has written, "Unlimited Access: an FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House."
In the book, Aldrich makes unflattering allegations about the public and private activities of President and Mrs. Clinton. But Aldrich acknowledged that many events described in the book came to him secondhand and thirdhand and that he had no evidence to corroborate them. The White House on Saturday opened an angry counterattack on the book and chided several news organizations for reporting its contents.
George Stephanopoulos, a senior adviser to the president, said the book was filled with demonstrably untrue information. "This book wouldn't pass the standard of fact-checkers at the National Enquirer," he said. Stephanopoulos said that except for an occasional "hello," Mrs. Clinton had never had any substantive conversations with Livingstone, who resigned his position last week, and she had no role in his hiring. One example of the book's untruths, he said, was that Aldrich wrote that Lloyd Cutler, a prominent Washington lawyer, brokered an agreement in the presidential campaign between Clinton and his wife, who was upset about reports of his marital infidelities.
Aldrich said Cutler persuaded Mrs. Clinton not to abandon her husband in exchange for her being given authority over all domestic policy if he was elected president. Cutler, in a statement released by the White House on Saturday, said the account was preposterous and that he hardly knew the Clintons at the time. He said he got to know them only when he was named White House counsel more than a year later. Aldrich is scheduled to appear on the ABC Sunday morning talk show "This Week With David Brinkley."
The White House assailed ABC News on Saturday for inviting him to talk about his book. "This guy writes lies," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said. He branded the book "fallacious and totally inaccurate." Livingstone's office obtained more than 900 confidential files from the FBI, including those of many prominent Republicans.
His activities are being investigated by two congressional committees, and he has testified before a grand jury investigating Whitewater-related matters. Asked to comment on the book, Clinton said at a news conference in Lyon, France: "I hardly even know how to comment on that. I mean, I hardly know what to say. I feel real bad for the FBI."
The president denied Mrs. Clinton was responsible for the hiring of Livingstone. "I know for a fact that that is not true," he said.
You'll always be remembered,
Where FBI Agents roam.
Your presence t'will be noted,
Your where abouts e'r known.
Forever, n'er forgotten,
deserted nor dismissed.
Your name will live forever...
Your on our E-MAIL list.
"In 1968, a monument was erected for a famous FBI French Legat. It is known as DeGaulle stone."
"The Director's turkey farm just installed a gobblestone driveway."
"Our ASAC's wig was sent to us by hair mail."
"Our Legat knew a lingerie buyer who gave his wife the slip."
"Our SAC knew two silkworms who were in a race, and ended up in a tie."
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