: re: Battling Crime and Calories at F.B.I. (Fit Bureau of Investigation)

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:06 AM
Subject: re: Battling Crime and Calories at F.B.I. (Fit Bureau of Investigation)
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   The lengths to which J. Edgar Hoover went to surround himself with slim young men are a matter of record. Agents of the Bureau relied on cigarettes and amphetamines to meet his criteria for weight and waistline. The legacy is twofold;  the burden of lung cancer falls on agents and former agents of the Bureau. But FBI policy concocted in an atmosphere of amphetamine-fueled paranoia still falls on us all.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/us/battling-crime-and-calories-at-fbi-fit-bureau-of-investigation.html