Volume 33, Number 15 · October 9, 1986
Tall Tales from the Drug Wars
By Alan M. Dershowitz
The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace
by James Mills
Doubleday, 1165 pp., $22.95
A story—perhaps apocryphal—goes that when J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI, his agents would tell him when they were hot on the trail of a fugitive. Certain that the capture was just a matter of time, Hoover would immediately place the fugitive—no matter how obscure or unimportant he might be—on the 'Ten Most Wanted' list. When the small-time criminal was then captured, the FBI press office would announce the news of another big capture. The image of the FBI was thus enhanced, and the nation felt safe in the knowledge that Hoover always got his man.
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