WILLIAM H. WEBSTER, DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION MAJOR CASES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS, 1978 - 1987

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WILLIAM H. WEBSTER, DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION:
MAJOR CASES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS, 1978 - 1987
The following is a compilation of major historic events
involving the FBI that occurred during FBI Director William H.
Webster 's administration. It is arranged accordin to
topics. The items printed in boldface ma general
lasting significance to American histo a be cons of
enforcement as well as to FBI history. and the h history of law
February 23, 1978 -- William H. Webster took the oath
of office as Director of the FBI. President Jimmy
Carter appointed him on January 19, 1978, and the
Senate confirmed him on February 9, 1978. One of Judge
Webster's goals was to make the FBI a model for all law
enforcement agencies in the United States in terms of
professionalism and conformity with constitutional
procedures. He continued the quality vs
approach initiated by his quantity
following priorities: white-collar crime, oe
crime, and foreign counterintelligence. r5anized
May 26, 1987 -- FBI Director William H. Webster was
sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence. He was
nominated by President Ronald Reagan March 3, 1987, and
was confirmed by the Senate 94 - 1 on May 20, 1987.
PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1978 -- As one of his first acts as Director,
Judge Webster sought to increase the representation
of qualified minorities and women within the FBI. In
his first year as Director, the number of female
Special Agents (SAs) increased 55.3 percent; blacks,
14.7 percent; Asian Americans, 14.7
15.5 percent; and American Indians, 6.7 peercent. Ascoof
December 31, 1986, the increases in women and minority
SAs from February 23, 1978, were women, from 94 to 699
(643 percent); blacks, 144 to 361 (150 percent); Asian
Americans, 34 to 101 (197 percent); Hispanics, 155 to
363 (134 percent); and American Indians, 15 to 38
(153 percent).
February 16, 1979 -- John D. Glover was appointed
Special Agent in Charge, Milwaukee, the first black to
attain that position in the FBI.
1978 -- The FBI sponsored a conference with
representatives of community-based organizations to
advise the Bureau on methods of expanding minority and
female recruitment.
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February 3, 1987 -- The National Drug Enforcement
Policy Board, in existence since 1984, was reorganized
with Attorney General Meese at the the head and
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Otis
Bowen as vice-chairman. The Board was enlarged to
include the Secretaries of Education, Labor, and
Housing and Urban Development.
April 22, 1987 -- Attorney General Meese announced that
DEA would retain its separate identity and mission and
not merge with the FBI.
INTERAGENCY COOPERATION
April, 1978 -- "Counterfence," one of the largest
most successful joint undercover operations tend
concluded by the FBI and the Los Anlesheriff'se was
Office, with the arrest of 256 persons.
January 31, 1986 -- One of the largest joint force of
law enforcement officers, including the FBI, ever.
assembled in New York City to date, raided 470 betting
places
lacesin "Operation Marlin." The raid was aimed at
betting parlors run by a syndicate of Cubans in 4 of
New York's 5 boroughs.
July - August 1984 -- The FBI, as lead Federal agency,
cooperated with other Federal agencies as well as state
and local law enforcement agencies for security during
the 1984 Summer Olympics. Most of its events took
place in Los Angeles, but Annapolis, Boston, Palo Alto,
and San Diego also had Olympics events. Because of its
size and the number of jurisdictions it covered, the
1984 Summer Olympics posed unprecedented security
problems. No terrorist incidents occurred.
August 14, 1986 -- A task force was established in
El Paso, Texas, to fight smugglers of guns, drugs, and
illegal aliens. Members represented the FBI, Internal
Revenue Service, Immigration and Naturalization
Service, United States Customs Service, Drug
Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms, and the United States Coast Guard.
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
Forensic Science: Developments in forensic science are
enabling investigators to solve crimes previously
considered insoluble.
April 3, 1978 -- The use of laser technology to detect
latent crime scene" fingerprints was initiated in the
Identification Division.
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February 6, 1984 -- Cross-search procedures began
between the National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
Missing Person File (operational October 1, 1975) and
the NCIC Unidentified Person File (operational June 30,
1983). The first confirmed identification occurred
December 11, 1984, of a Massachusetts man reported
missing April, 1983, who was matched with data of a
Nevada suicide entered into the system in October,
1984. Local authorities followed up the NCIC match to
confirm the identity.
July 10, 1984 -- The National Center for the Analysis
of Violent Crime was established at the FBI Academy.
It became fully operational June, 1985.
July, 1985 -- The automated Skills Bank in the
Personnel Information Center became fully operational.
July 9, 1985 -- A computer, for the first time,
identified a dismembered victim. The victim, Joseph M.
Shanan of Elgin, Illinois, was decapitated and his
hands also had been removed.
FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
April 10, 1978 -- Arkady Shevchenko, the highest
ranking Soviet official at the United Nations,
renounced Soviet citizenship and applied for
United States asylum.
Kay 20, 1978 - Present -- The decision to indict people
a or eiespiona ge, Plus use of new techniques. resulted in
f
number of arrests for espionage.
May 20, 1978 -- Rudolph Chernyayev and Valdik Enger,
Soviet citizens and United Nations employees, were
arrested by the FBI on espionage charges. Vladimir
Zinyakin, a Soviet citizen, was also picked up but
released because he carried diplomatic immunit
attempted subversion and bribery of a United States They
Navy officer (cooperating with the FBI) to obtain Navy
secrets. Both were convicted and sentenced on
October 30, 1978, to 10 years each.
July 15, 1981 -- Joseph George Helmich, former Army
cryptographer, was indicted and arrested by the FBI in
Jacksonville, Florida. Helmich was charged with
delivering information to Soviets.
April 17, 1982 -- Otto Attilla Gilbert, a Hungarian
spy, was arrested by the FBI in Augusta, Georgia, for
conspiracy to commit espionage.
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damaging spy rings in the United States in this
century. Also charged was his son, Michael Lance
Walker. His'brother, Arthur J. Walker, was indicted on
June 17, 1985, as was J. A. Walker's best friend,
Jerry A. Whitworth, who was arrested on June 3, 1985.
Arthur was found guilty on August 9, 1985; John
and Michael pled guilty on October 28, 1985.
Arthur Walker's conviction was upheld July 10, 1986.
Whitworth was convicted July 24, 1986, and was
sentenced August 28, 1986, to a 365-year term.
June 11, 1985 -- East German scientist, Alfred Zehe,
was sentenced to 8 years in prison for espionage. Zehe
was exchanged April 11, 1985, in a spy exchange
involving 25 Western agents imprisoned in East Germany.
Alice Mickelson, another East German agent, was
sentenced to 5 years' probation in June, 1985, also
was involved in this exchange. Others sent to Eastern
Europe were Marian W. Zacharski, a Polish intelligence
agent, sentenced in 1981, and Penyu B. Kostadinuv, a
Bulgarian intelligence agent.
July 11, 1985 -- Sharon Scranage, an employee of the
CIA, was arrested and charged with espionage for
passing classified information to representatives
of the Ghanaian Government. She pled guilty
September, 1985, to revealing classified information
and was sentenced November, 1985, to 5 years in prison.
Michael Soussoudis, a Ghanaian national accused with
her, was exchanged December, 1985, for Ghanaians who
worked with the CIA.
November 21, 1985 -- Jonathan Jay Pollard, a Navy
intelligence analyst, was arrested for spying for
Israel. His wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, was arrested
November 23, 1984. Pollard pled guilty on June 4,
1986, for conspiring to receive embezzled Government
property and Henderson-Pollard pled
an
accessory. On March 3, 1987, aFederallgra to jury
indicted Israeli Brigadier General Aviem Sella on
charges that he recruited Pollard as a spy and received
United States defense secrets.
November 23, 1985 -- Larry Wu Tai Chin, a former CIA
analyst, was arrested on charges of spying for the
People's Republic of China since 1952. He was
convicted on February 7, 1986, and committed suicide 2
weeks later.
November 25, 1985 -- William Pelton, former National
Security Agency employee, was charged with spying. He
received a life sentence on December 16, 1986.
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February 21, 1987 -- Werner Bruchhausen, a West
German businessman labeled in the press as the "world's
most prolific techno bandit," was convicted in
Los Angeles of illegally shipping United States
computers and electronics to the Soviet Union.
WHITE COLLAR CRIME
October 25, 1978 -- $10.2 million was transferred
without authority from a California bank to New York,
then to Switzerland, by Stanley Mark Rifkin, a computer
systems consultant. In Europe, Rifkin purchased
$8.1 million in diamonds and smuggled them into the
United States. He was arrested on November 6, 1978, in
San Diego and sentenced on March 26, 1979, to 8 years.
Practically 100 percent recovery in diamonds and cash
was made. While awaiting trial, Rifkin attempted to
organize a computer theft of $50 million, but enlisted
an undercover FBI Special Agent as confederate.
Februar
y 3,1980 -- revealed when an FBI eroovar
investigation, vealed when media stories
app erredvest. Its t targeted public corruption and bribery.
and
Senator were indicted and one United States
local officials. This case convicted,
aarkean erly state
of
closed-circuit television for surveillance purposes and
for presenting the case to a jury.
February 9, 1980 -- "Brilab," an FBI undercover
investigation, surfaced. It concerned political
corru ption and bribery in the Southwest involving
political officials, labor leaders, and Carlos
Marcello, allegedly a top New Orleans organized crime
figure. Marcello and a former Louisiana state
commissioner were convicted on August 3, 1981.
March 27, 1980 -- Michele Sindona, an international
financier, was convicted, in New York, in connection
with the Franklin National Bank collapse. Sindona had
disappeared on August 3, 1979, while awaiting trial and
reappeared in October 15, 1979, claiming abduction.
The investigation proved Sindona traveled voluntarily,
under an alias, to and within Europe and returned.
Italy requested extradition in connection with a $225
million fund transfer causing the collapse of 2 Italian
banks. He was convicted of bank fraud in Italy, on
March 17, 1985, in a trial made possible by the
United States-Italian extradition treaty.
January 5, 1981 -- Guidelines were issued by the
Department of Justice (DOJ) for FBI undercover Special
Agents in matters involving bribery of public
officials.
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February 28, 1985 -- With 6 others, Governor Edwin W.
Edwards of Louisiana was indicted for obstruction of
Justice, Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and racketeering as
well as state bribery charges. The trial ended in a
hung jury on December 18, 1985.
April 23, 1985 -- "Operation Gallstone," an inter-
national sting operation, led to the recovery of $500
million in counterfeit and stolen securities and the
indictment of 29 people in 3 states after a 5-year
investigation.
February 9, 1986 -- Federal District Judge Walter L.
Nixon, Jr., was found guilty on 2 counts of perjury,
making him the second sitting Federal judge to be
convicted of a crime. He was sentenced March 31, 1986,
to 5 years in prison. The Federal Appeals Court upheld
the conviction on April 30, 1987.
April 9, 1986 -- A Federal grand jury indicted Stanley
Friedman, Bronx, New York, Democratic leader, and 6
others on racketeering charges. They were found guilty
on November 25, 1986. Friedman was sentenced to 12
years in prison, on March 11, 1987. Geoffry
Lindenauer, the key Government witness against him, was
sentenced on July 15, 1987, to 2 years in prison for
his role.
July 22, 1986 -- 170 people were charged with filing
false automobile insurance claims totaling over $1
million in 12 states and Canada, the largest auto
insurance fraud in United States history.
July 29, 1986 -- Norman Mark Allen, Honesdale,
Pennsylvania, pled guilty to communicating false
information regarding consumer product tampering. He
was the first person in the United States to be
prosecuted for this crime. On September 2, 1986, he
was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
July 30, 1986 -- 10 officers, including 2 chiefs, from
6 Eastern Massachusetts police departments were
indicted for racketeering, conspiracy, and perjury in a
scheme that included stealing police examinations and
changing test scores.
October 28, 1986 -- A Philadelphia city councilman and
others were indicted on charges of extortion. Other
indictments against the councilman were for election
fraud.
November 21, 1986 -- Six indictments were returned
under "Operation Incubator" an FBI probe into the
acceptance of bribes by Chicago officials. On
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March 21, 1983 -- New Attorney General guidelines for
domestic security and terrorism cases, announced by
Attorney General William French Smith on March 7, 1983,
became effective, replacing the 1976 Domestic Security
Guidelines.
May 26 - June 29, 1983 -- A successful assault against
the Puerto Rican terrorist organization, FAIN occurred.
FAIN leader William Morales was arrested by Mexican
authorities following information furnished by the FBI.
Four FALN members were arrested in Chicago by the FBI
for seditious conspiracy; explosives and weapons were
seized, averting several projected bombings.
September 12, 1983 -- Victor Gerona, a Wells Fargo
Armored Service guard in West Hartford, Connecticut,
stole approximately $7 million cash. On August 30,
1985, 12 persons were arrested in Puerto Rico and one
was arrested in Boston. Seventeen persons were charged
by a Connecticut Federal grand jury with the heist.
Three were arrested on March 22, 1986; 1 in
Northampton, Massachusetts and 2 in Puerto Rico.
January 30, 1985 -- 2 members of the Aryan Nation, a
white extremist organization, were arrested for aiding
in the multimillion dollar robbery of a Brinks
truck near Ukiah, California, in July, 1984. On
March 19, 1986, Richard Joseph Scutari, last fugitive
member of "The Order," was arrested in Texas. He had
been placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitive list
in September, 1985. On April 30, 1986, he pled guilty
to racketeering and to the Ukiah, California, Brinks
robbery and was sentenced to 60 years in prison on
June 5, 1986.
April 22, 1985 -- James D. Ellison, leader of "The
Covenant, The Sword, and The Arm of the Lord," a white
extremist survivalist group, surrendered to Federal
authorities including the FBI after a 4-day siege in
Arkansas. He was convicted on July 17, 1985, of
racketeering charges, arson, and bombing.
August 5, 1985 -- 4 people suspected of being FALN
members were convicted of seditious conspiracy for
plotting to bomb 2 military installations. Three were
sentenced on October 4, 1985, to 35-year prison terms
and the fourth received a suspended sentence and 5
years probation.
December 30, 1985 -- 10 neo-Nazis, members of "The
Order" arrested in April, 1985, were convicted on
racketeering charges for murders and robberies
to Thisawas for
o one of white first
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November 1, 1984 -- A plot to assassinate the President
of Honduras and overthrow his administration was
thwarted by the FBI.
November 9, 1984 -- Eduardo Arocena, a Cuban exile who
allegedly headed Omega 7, an anti-Castro terrorist
group, was sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering
the 1980 murder of Felix Garcia Rodriguez, attache at
the Cuban mission to the United Nations.
May 13, 1985 -- A plot to assassinate Prime Minister of
India Rajiv Ghandi by Sikh terrorists when he visited
the United States in June was foiled by the FBI. The
conspiracy also planned to assassinate Bhajan Lal,
Chief Minister of the Indian State of Haryana, who was
also in the United States. On March 21, 1986,
Gurpartap Singh Birk was convicted of violating the
United States Neutrality laws by conspiring violent
action against a foreign nation with which the United
States was at peace and of conspiring to buy
explosives. He was acquitted of plotting to
assassinate the Indian Prime Minister.
June 14, 1985 -- TWA Flight 847 to Syria with 153
persons on board was hijacked. Most of the people were
released in the first few days. Thirty-nine hostages
were freed after 31 days. On November 21, 1985, a
Federal grand jury indicted 3 men based on evidence
obtained through interviews conducted by the FBI with
passengers. One, Mohammed Ali Hamadi, who was
arrested in West Germany, on January 21, 1987. The
United States formally requested his extradition but
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl informed Attorney
General Meese on June 23, 1987, that it would not
extradite him, but would try him for murder.
October 7, 1985 -- The Italian cruise ship, the
"Achille Lauro" was hijacked by 4 Palestinians. On
October 8, 1985, the hijackers killed disabled American
passenger Leon Klinghoffer, aged 69. The terrorists
surrendered on October 9, 1985. The FBI conducted an
investigation on the grounds that American citizens had
been victims of the hijacking.
July 28, 1986 -- The FBI arrested 13 individuals for
plotting the overthrow of the Government of Suriname.
All either pled guilty or declined to contest charges.
Four were sentenced on November 5, 1986, to prison
terms; the others received suspended sentences.
May 7, 1987 -- Two right-wing extremists were indicted
by a Federal grand jury in Oklahoma for plotting the
murder of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. The plot
was thwarted when a recruit informed the FBI.
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January 15, 1985 -- Twenty-six persons were indicted in
connection with a drug ring netting over $100 million
in profits. .Proceeds of sales were laundered through
several business firms dealing in gems and oriental
rugs. The investigation, "Operation Flying Carpet,"
was conducted by the FBI in conjunction with DEA, the
Internal Revenue Service, and the U.S Customs Service.
It resulted in 40 convictions. Leon Durwood Harvey was
found guilty of running the drug ring.
February 7, 1985 -- Enrique Camarena Salazar, a DEA
Agent in Guadalajara, Mexico, was abducted. His body
and that of a Mexican pilot who sometimes worked
with him were found on March 5, 1985. A suspect,
Rafael Caro Quintero, was captured in Costa Rico on
April 4, 1985. On December 22, 1986, a San Diego
jury convicted Mario Martinez Herrera, a Mexican
police official, of lying to a Federal grand jury
investigating the slaying of Camarena Salazar. This
was the first conviction in a United States court
related to the murder. He was sentenced on
February 17, 1987, to 1 year and 1 day in prison.
Two others were arraigned in Los Angeles on
December 29, 1986.
March 14, 1985 -- Former FBI Agent Dan Mitrione, Jr.,
pled guilty to Federal charges that he had accepted
$850,000 in cash and property from a Florida cocaine
ring. This was the only major narcotics case ever
filed against an FBI Agent.
May 24, 1985 -- Attorney General Meese announced that
DEA training would shift to the FBI Academy in Quantico
in fiscal year 1986. Previously, DEA agents had been
trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
at Glynco, Georgia. The first Quantico class began on
October 1, 1985.
July 23, 1985 -- Federal Agents arrested 134 people,
seized 47 homes and businesses, and confiscated over
$200,000 in cash in connection with the drug ring
controlled by the Jaime Herrera family of Durango,
Mexico. Most arrests were made in Chicago, with others
in Indiana, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan,
New York, Texas, and Puerto Rico.
November 18, 1986 -- Federal authorities indicted 7
Colombians, 1 Nicaraguan, and 1 Mexican, none of whom
were in custody, for smuggling at least 58 tons of
cocaine into the United States. The ring was known as
the Medellin Cartel.
December, 1986 -- A separate Drug Section was
established in the Criminal Investigative Division. On
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April 9, 1984 -- DOS announced charges related to one
of the most significant cases involving heroin
trafficking by traditional organized crime developed by
the Government to that date. The case documented
international connections as well as those within the
United'States. The case was known as "the Pizza
Connection," and the ensuing trial was one of the
longest in Federal court history. On March 2, 1987, 18
man were convicted. Five leaders, including Gaetano
Badalamenti, former leader of the Sicilian mafia, were
sentenced on June 22, 1987 to prison terms of at least
30 years, and ordered to contribute over $2.5 million
to a fund for treating drug addicts. On July 17, 1987,
a mistrial was granted defendant Pietro Alfano, who had
been shot on February 12, 1987, and could not attend
the end of the trial.
October 2-3, 1984 -- The Joint Italian-Ammkrican Working
Group to Fight Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime
held its first meeting in VhxhfivjE~ D.C. 7 he Group was created in October, 1983 by President Reagan
and the President of the Italian Council of Italia
Ministers, Bettino Craxi. Cooperation between Italy
and the United States produced an extradition treaty
and mutual assistance in coubating organized crime.
October 24, 1984 -- Leaders of the Colombo organized
crime family, carmine Persico, and 8 others were
indicted in New York for offenses including extortion,
embezzlement, and mob control of unions. In June,
1986, they were convicted on Federal racketeering
charges. Persico was sentenced on November 17, 1986,
to 39 years and others from 12 to 65 years.
February 26, 1985 -- Nine men, including the 5 reputed
leaders of New York's mafia families, were charged with
participating in a "commission" that governed the 5
organized crime families in New York City. They were
convicted on November 19, 1986, and sentenced on
January 13, 1987, to between 40 and 100 years in
prison.
January 21, 1986 -- Five men, including Joseph Aiuppa,
the reputed leader of organized crime in Chicago, were
convicted of conspiring to divert more than $2 million
in untaxed gambling winnings. Aiuppa was sentenced to
28 years in prison on March 27, 1986.
February 26, 1986 -- Gennaro J. Anguilo, 2 brothers,
and an associate were convicted in Boston of
racketeering activity. Anguilo was considered the
underboss of the Providence, Rhode Island, Patriarcha
La Cosa Nostra family.
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Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, state, and local police
participated in the roundup.
December 17, 1986 -- 8 members of the "Bamboo"
were sentenced to between 10 and 25 years. Chag~g
included the murder of journalist rges
Henry Liu.
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
October 2-3, 1984 -- The Joint Italian-American Working
Group to Fight Drug Trafficking and
held its first meeting i Organized Crime
Group was created in October shlggon, D.C. The Working Presiden Reagan and the President of the Italian Council o
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fonald
Ministers, Bettina Craxi. Cooperation between Italy
and the United States produced an
and mutual assistance in combating treaty
organized anized crime.
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January 5, 1985 -- Four fugitives who were wanted on
drug charges in the United States were returned by
Colombia under a 1982 extradition treaty,
time that Colombian nationals were extra the first
treaty. The Colombian Supreme Co lared under the
treaty unconstitutional in December declared the
,1986.
1986 -- Utilization of Interpol increased substantially
in the 1980s. As a result, in Fiscal year 1986 its
services were used in 375 investigative matters.
agreement joining -- The United States and Italy si
agreement
onal joining forces in the fight against grad an
terrorism. The agrees calls for
policy, Procedure, and doctrinal exchanges, the sharing
o ge=m, and parallel training of Personnel.
September 12 1986
Septged du ' -- Oscar Fernando Cuevas, the first
to te Udrugdlauuderer ever extradicted by Switzerland
grand , was found guilty by a Federal
jury. He was sentenced on December 19, 1986, to
15 years in prison.
January, 1985 -- Interpol was authorized for the first
time since World War II, to circulate warrants politically related crimes such as kidnapingsa in
bombings, making it more effective in fighting
terrorism.
IRAN-CONTRA INVESTIGATION
October 10, 1986 -- A Southern Air Transport
shot down in Nicaragua. Eugene Hasenfus, plane was
survivor, admitted that the plane was transpoortingg guns
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