By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — David Frum rightly skewered Republicans for saying the Obama administration isn’t doing enough to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, drugs and guns into the country while proposing a $600 million haircut for Customs and Border Control in the 2012 budget. But you have to wonder whether today’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — For roughly 30 years, the FBI kept files on tips and rumors suggesting Adolph Hitler had faked his suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945 and was hiding somewhere around the world, according to FBI documents available on the agency’s website. In one of the many FBI memos, FBI…
By Anne-Marie O’Connor and William Booth The Washington Post SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico — On a sunny afternoon last week, when the streets of this mountain mining city were filled with schoolchildren and parents hurrying home from work, gunmen entered a tiny apartment and started firing methodically. The assassins killed everyone: the family matriarch and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Back in the late 1940s, FBI J. Edgar Hoover had more than communists on his mind. An FBI memo shows on April 4, 1949, FBI agents in Utah sent an “urgent” cable to the Hoover saying an Army guard at the Ogden Supply Depot, a Logan policeman and a Utah Highway…
