The FBI

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~k MUSTREAD A COMPELLING ACCOUNTOF Hff CONTEMPORARY FBI. WARTS AND ALL " -Philadelphia Inquirer In this expiosíve bestseller, award-wínníng joumalíst Ronald K sáfer reveals the abushre practices that utömately resulted ín the dis nissal of FBI Dírector William S. Sessíons ín 1933. But those sti ining revelations compríse only a small pait of this dramatic. metici ousíy researched examination of the FBI in the post-Hoover era. I issler has used unprecedented access to unimpeachable FBI sourc s anfib secret facHities to repoit first-hand on the greatest successás anC most shockíng failures of the Bureau. Hé shows us, as never tpforeft the FBI leaders, their methods, and the secrets they keep, inclodingis * how the FBI solved its most publicized cases, includinathe 1 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, Watergate, the Patty Harst fe kídnappíng, the John A. Walker, Jr, spy case, and the Vttrld 1 Trade Center bombing ' • how the FBI híd embarrassmg internál scandals, ínclSng ] one ínvolvíng two... Tovább

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~k MUSTREAD A COMPELLING ACCOUNTOF Hff CONTEMPORARY FBI. WARTS AND ALL " -Philadelphia Inquirer In this expiosíve bestseller, award-wínníng joumalíst Ronald K sáfer reveals the abushre practices that utömately resulted ín the dis nissal of FBI Dírector William S. Sessíons ín 1933. But those sti ining revelations compríse only a small pait of this dramatic. metici ousíy researched examination of the FBI in the post-Hoover era. I issler has used unprecedented access to unimpeachable FBI sourc s anfib secret facHities to repoit first-hand on the greatest successás anC most shockíng failures of the Bureau. Hé shows us, as never tpforeft the FBI leaders, their methods, and the secrets they keep, inclodingis * how the FBI solved its most publicized cases, includinathe 1 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, Watergate, the Patty Harst fe kídnappíng, the John A. Walker, Jr, spy case, and the Vttrld 1 Trade Center bombing ' • how the FBI híd embarrassmg internál scandals, ínclSng ] one ínvolvíng two marríed agents who aítended a wife swappng I club * the FBI's ínvolvement in the Waco, Texas-David KoMsfí standoff, and its botched attempt to bug the cars of Sipet díplomats in Washington • how the Bureau cracks cases with high tech-DNA analysis. computer agíng of faces, super-secret surveillance techniques, and profiling of seríal killers jk ¦yJJiíi! Eye-openíng and authoritative, Kessler's THE FBI will forever change the way America víews Jts most powerful law enforcement agency. "Fascinating..4a] careful and well-written study . Kessler lafs out the agency's clangers as well as its triumghs and reveals the incompetents híding in its ranks..."-Saitfftncisco Chromcle A New York Times Book ReviewHa&fote Bookuf 1993 Vissza