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“A must-read…a compelling account…of the contemporary FBI, warts and all…—Philadelphia Inquirer
In this explosive bestseller, award-winning journalist Ronald Kessler reveals the abusive practices that ultimately resulted in the dismissal of FBI Director William S. Sessions in 1993. But those stunning revelations comprise only a small part of this dramatic, meticulously researched examination of the FBI int he post-Hoover era. Kessler has used unprecedented access to unimpeachable FBI sources and secret facilities to report first-hand on the greatest successes and most shocking failures of the Bureau. He shows us, as never before, the FBI leaders, their methods, and the secrets they keep, including:
• how the FBI solved its most publicized cases, including the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, Watergate, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the John A. Walker, Jr., spy case, and the World Trade Center bombing.
• how the FBI hid embarrassing internal scandals, including one involving two married agents who attended a wife-swapping club
• the FBI's involvement in the Waco, Texas-David Koresh standoff, and its botched attempt to bug the cars of Soviet diplomats in Wasington
• how the Bureau cracks cases with high tech-DNA analysis, computer aging of faces, super-secret surveillance techniques, and profiling of serial killers
Includes the changes—good and bad made by new FBI Director Louis Freeh.
Eye-opening and autoritative, Kessler's The FBI will forever change the way America views its most powerful law enforcement agency.
“Fascinating…[a] careful and well-written study…Kessler lays out the agency's clangers as well as its triumphs and reveals the incompetents hiding in its ranks…”
—San Francisco Chronicle
(Back Cover)
An explosive expose from the bestselling author whose investigation brought down FBI director William S. Sessions. Offered unprecedented access and cooperation, Kessler reveals the inner workings of the modern FBI and the methods, powers and secrets of the people who run the Bureau. 16-page insert. ISBN:9780671786588
