Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Nicholas DeBelleville Katzenbach, who worked as a lawyer for the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration and became Attorney General under the Johnson regime, only to bump heads with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, died Tuesday at age 90. Serving a crucial role in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, it was Katzenbach…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The era haunted by first-hand memories of the JFK assassination is coming to an end. Ex-FBI agent James Sibert died April 6 in Fort Myers, Florida, from complications following a fall. At age 93, he was the last surviving FBI agent to have attended JFK’s autopsy, according to the Naples News. Naples…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent Harvey C. Flemister 85, a 27-year veteran of the bureau, died of congestive heart failure March 18 at his home in Silver Springs, Md. The Washington Post reports Flemister retired in 1977 as chief of the FBI intelligence division’s liaison section. Having started his career as a special agent in…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Bob Craig, retired FBI agent and father of four, is remembered for being a stand-up agent in the field and a regular guy at home. Fellow agents applauded him for his “tremendous intellect,” and essential role in busting up the Pittsburgh Mafia when he first came to town in the late 70’s,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A 29-year-old special agent with the D.C. Inspector General’s Office collapsed and died Wednesday in suburban Virginia while taking a FBI physical stress test to become an agent, according to sources familiar with the incident. Lloyd Hodge, who had been an investigator with the D.C. Inspector General’s Office for…
It’s never good when the head of a law enforcement agency gets indicted by the feds. Certainly not good p.r. for the department. By ERICA BLAKE Toledo Blade Staff Writer TOLEDO,Ohio — Lucas County Sheriff James Telb and three members of his staff – including two former employees – were indicted in U.S. District Court…
Treatment of detainees at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities has been an issue some insist needs to be resolved now. Will the death of Guido Newbrough force authorities to take a harder look at the issue? That remains to be seen. By Nick Miroff Washington Post Staff Writer One morning last November, Prince William County…
