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- Title
Lifting the cover from undercover operations: J. Edgar Hoover and some of the other criminologists.
- Authors
Geis, Gilbert; Goff, Colin
- Abstract
The article examines the undercover operations of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), led by director J. Edgar Hoover, against criminologists Harry Elmer Barnes and Edwin H. Sutherland, and against former agent Jack Shaw. Barnes' speech to members of the Rotary Club in Utica led the FBI to place his name on a roster of allegedly dangerous and disloyal persons. Sutherland's name entered the FBI files after he appeared as an officer of the National Institute on Mercenary Crime on its letterhead. Shaw's resignation from the FBI let Hoover to prevent him from getting other law enforcement jobs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNDERCOVER operations; CRIMINAL investigation; UNITED States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; HOOVER, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972; BARNES, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968; SUTHERLAND, Edwin Hardin, 1883-1950; SHAW, Jack; CRIMINOLOGISTS
- Publication
Crime, Law & Social Change, 1992, Vol 18, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
0925-4994
- Publication type
Article