An imposing wax-like figure of J. Edgar Hoover just got downsized at the FBI
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J. Edgar Hoover, who served as director of the FBI for 48 years, is seen at graduation ceremonies for the bureau in July 1971. (Harvey Georges/AP)
The ultimate G-man just got busted down to storage.
A wax-like, life-size figure of J. Edgar Hoover, which was recently installed among other memorabilia in the FBI’s New York Field Office, has been removed because of objections from bureau personnel.
The decision to oust Hoover, who was the FBI’s director for 48 years and served under 10 presidents, is something of a cultural moment for the bureau. Once revered among FBI agents, Hoover is no longer universally admired at the crime-fighting organization he built.
“There are no plans to display him again,” said Michael P. Kortan, assistant director of the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs.
A new generation of agents and other employees dislike the history he represents, which includes secret campaigns to spy on and discredit political enemies, anti-war activists and civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.
Women were also unwelcome in Hoover’s bureau. By 1928, four years after he became acting director, all three female agents had resigned, and it wasn’t until May 1972, the year Hoover died,that women were once again hired as special agents.
“Hoover was not a monster. He was an American Machiavelli. He was astute, he was cunning, and he never stopped watching his enemies,” wrote Tim Weiner in “Enemies: A History of the FBI.” “He was a masterful manipulator of public opinion. He practiced political warfare and secret statecraft in pursuit of national security, often at the expense of morality.”
Current FBI Director James B. Comey has invoked Hoover’s toxic legacy to warn new agents about the exercise of their powers.
In a speech earlier this year at Georgetown University, Comey said he makes new agents and analysts study the FBI’s relationship with King and visit his memorial so they can ponder the mistakes of the past. Comey also said that he keeps a letter on his desk of then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s approval of Hoover’s baseless request to wiretap King.
“The reason I do those things is to ensure that we remember our mistakes and that we learn from them,” Comey said. “So we must talk about our history. It is a hard truth that lives on.”
FBI officials said sending Hoover to New York at first seemed like a harmless idea. The figure — a jowly, stern-faced Hoover, dressed in a dark suit — was originally on display at FBI headquarters in the District, which is named after Hoover, but it had been in storage for some years.
The figure had been all but forgotten until FBI officials in New York decided they wanted to add to their museum collection.
An FBI spokeswoman in New York said that in exchange for the Hoover mannequin, the office sent to D.C. a $60,000 replica of the Wall Street bull, which was confiscated during a white-collar crime investigation.
Hoover was hauled north in a rental truck Some agents seem happy to see him, posting a picture on Facebook of themselves surrounding the wax figure and grinning happily.
“Among the few former agents alive who worked in the bureau [back then], there are some, I’m sure, who still think he was the epitome of good law enforcement and someone who stood as a bulwark during the Cold War [and] kept the bad guys under control,” said Betty Medsger, author of “The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI.” “There are other former agents who wonder how they ever endured the crazy environment he created.”
Hoover was taken down after senior managers recently conferred and decided it was time for him to go. His days of greeting visitors on the 28th floor, where FBI management sits, over.
The New York Field Office, in a 2014 nationwide FBI survey, received high marks for working well with “employees of different backgrounds.”
“He will likely go back into storage,” Kortan said. The FBI declined to allow The Post to photograph Hoover and also wouldn’t provide an image.
And who or what will taken his place in the collection amid the vintage guns and counterintelligence gear?
“We are in the process of updating and changing it,” said Kelly Langmesser, spokeswoman for the FBI in New York. “It’s a moving puzzle.”
Adam Goldman reports on terrorism and national security for The Washington Post.
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The Russian government is closing the American Center in Moscow, suggesting a further disintegration of U.S.-Russian relations.
The center, which sees as many as 300 visitors daily, connects Russian citizens to American history, politics, and literature. It functions as a public library and lecture hall and allows visitors to check out books and videos about American life.
“Our center also hosts various events: lectures on various subjects – from the history of jazz to U.S. presidential elections, from poetry readings to problems facing small businesses,” the center’s website reads. “We also offer advice for those who wish to continue their studies in the United States.”
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U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft expressed regret about the Kremlin’s decision to close the center, saying that ties between American and Russian citizens persisted even throughout the Cold War.
“The American Center has built deep and strong connections between the people and cultures of Russia and the United States,” he wrote in a statement. “These latest unilateral steps further call into question the Russian government’s commitment to maintaining people-to-people ties between the Russian and American people, which continued even during the Cold War and other complicated moments in our countries’ long history,”
The closing comes a year after the Russian government’s decision to terminate the Future Leader Exchange (FLEX) program, formerly the largest exchange program between the U.S. and Russia.
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The Kremlin has been openly cooperating with the Assad regime, stating that it “has long been supplying arms and military equipment to Syria in accordance with bilateral contracts.” Russian President Vladimir Putin bolstered the statement, saying that Russia is fighting ISIS’ “terrorist aggression” alongside the Syrian government.
The State Department has said that the U.S. will not prop up or cooperate with the Assad regime, and will instead opt for a political transition in Syria.
Russian public perception of the United States also reflects the current state of U.S.-Russian relations.
An August 2015 Levada Center poll revealed that 70 percent of Russians hold a negative attitude toward the United States, compared to 75 percent that hold a positive attitude toward China and 43 percent that hold a positive attitude toward Iran.
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Obama pointedly refused to see Netanyahu in March when the Israeli leader appeared before a joint meeting of Congress and harshly criticized the U.S.-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran, Israel’s enemy. U.S. lawmakers had arranged Netanyahu’s appearance without White House input.
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The Associated Press reported that Kerry phoned Lavrov a third time Tuesday as Russia continued to fly troops and equipment to an area near the Syrian port city of Latakia, where Moscow appears to be constructing a military base.
“Kerry made clear that Russia’s continued support for [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad] risks exacerbating and extending the conflict, and undermining our shared goal of fighting extremism if we do not also remain focused on finding a solution to the conflict in Syria via a genuine political transition,” the State Department said in a statement.
Kerry’s third call came after Russia defied U.S. efforts and began to fly military equipment and personnel to Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin defended the aid Tuesday, describing it as necessary to helping combat the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIL and ISIS) in the region.
The Russian activity in Syria has perplexed the Obama administration.
“The decision-making process in that country is rather opaque,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, saying that any long-term goal on the part of Putin is “not clear exactly.”
An anonymous U.S. official compared the possible options for responding to Russian activity to “spaghetti on the wall.” State Department spokesman John Kirby hinted that sanctions might be a way in which the United States could respond to increased Russian action in the area.
“These actions inside Syria could very well lead to further isolation for Russia,” Kirby said.
According to the New York Times, President Obama is considering meeting with Putin to discuss the chaos in Syria when the two cross paths later this month at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
While Russia, like Iran, has remained a strong ally of Assad, the Obama administration has stood on the side of the Syrian rebels fighting the regime in the Syrian civil war.
Uncertainty surrounding Russia’s behavior in Syria has reportedly prompted some allies of the United States to consider cooperating with Putin.
For instance, British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond last week informed Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee that the government would be open to compromises with Russia and Iran that could result in Assad playing a role “for some months” to stabilize Syria.
The State Department spokesman dismissed such an idea.
“Nothing’s changed about the fact that we don’t want to see the Assad regime getting any support. There can’t be a role (for) the Assad regime in efforts to stabilize the situation in Syria, much less go against ISIL,” Kirby said.
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The United States has provided secret assurances to Europe, China, and Russia that it will protect companies working with Iran from consequences related to the possible reimposition of sanctions set to be lifted under the recently inked nuclear deal, according to a document provided to Congress and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
Secretary of State John Kerry admitted to Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) that the United States will work with foreign companies who financially engage Iran to shield them from penalties in the aftermath of Iran violating the agreement, a decision experts told the Free Beacon risked a corporate rush into Iran that will permanently bolster the Iranian economy and incentivize Iranian cheating.
Kerry acknowledged that the Obama administration had provided confidential guarantees that Washington “would not retroactively sanction companies” who helped bolster the Iranian economy and that the United States would work with those companies to bring their future activity in Iran into compliance with any new U.S. sanctions.
“For companies that have contracts that would otherwise continue after snapback, we have a consistent past practice of working with companies to wind down their contracts,” he wrote in the on the record statement.
The statements were in response to a congressional inquiry about a provision in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), dubbed a “grandfather clause,” that would provide contract sanctity to corporations doing business in Iran. While the administration has denied that any such provision exists, Kerry admitted to Rubio that it would be provided on a case-by-case basis.
“We would consult with relevant states on a case-by-case basis to address issues that may arise,” Kerry writes. “We have not, however, committed to provide a blanket exemption (or grandfather clause).”
Kerry tried to justify the assurances as necessary to convince American rivals such as Russia and China to go along with the deal. Both nations and their private companies stand to benefit greatly from arms deals and other future agreements with Iran.
“When we were negotiating this provision, some of our partners expressed concerns that if sanctions snapped back, their companies would be suddenly sanctioned for doing business in Iran that was consistent with the JCPOA,” Kerry writes.
The guarantees were provided in secret letters sent to China, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Kerry noted that the letters were transmitted to lawmakers as part of a mandatory disclosure required by legislation providing for congressional review of the deal.
Lawmakers and their staffers are prohibited from sharing the contents of those letters with the American public. The administration appears to have intentionally mixed classified and unclassified information into that disclosure to bury the material, the Daily Beast reported in July.
Insiders told the Free Beacon that the concession undermines the effectiveness of the agreement.
“It’s the worst of all worlds,” according to one analyst involved in helping lawmakers evaluate the potential results of sanctions relief to Iran. “European countries will resist any finding that the Iranians are cheating because they won’t want to endanger their corporations’ future business, and companies will know that one way or another they can act recklessly regarding investments in Iran.”
These disclosures come on the heels of a Free Beacon report revealing that Iran has been spending billions to pay the salaries of terrorists.
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