the FBI, see Gentry’s J. Edgar Hoover; Ungar’s FBI; Powers’s Secrecy and Power; and
Burrough’s Public Enemies. For more background on the Teapot Dome scandal, see
McCartney’s Teapot Dome Scandal; Dean’s Warren G. Harding; and Stratton’s
Tempest over Teapot Dome.
“illegal plots”: Quoted in Lowenthal, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 292.
“Every effort”: Quoted in Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, 129.
“gilded favoritism”: Cincinnati Enquirer, March 14, 1924.
“I was very much”: J. M. Towler to Hoover, Jan. 6, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“You brought credit”: Hoover to Verdon Adams, Oct. 19, 1970, FBI/FOIA.
“We were a bunch”: Quoted in Burrough, Public Enemies, 51.
“any continued”: C. S. Weakley to Findlay, Aug. 16, 1923, FBI.
“unfavorable comment”: W. D. Bolling to Hoover, April 3, 1925, FBI.
“undercover man”: Report by Weiss and Burger, May 24, 1924, FBI.
“We expect splendid”: Ibid.
“a number of officers”: Findlay to Eberstein, Feb. 5, 1925, FBI.
“responsible for failure”: Hoover to Bolling, March 16, 1925, FBI.
“I join in”: Palmer to Curtis, Jan. 28, 1925, FBI.
“acute and delicate”: Hoover to White, Aug. 8, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“This Bureau”: Hoover to White, May 1, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“I want you”: Transcript of interview with White, NMSUL.
“office is probably”: Hoover to White, Sept. 21, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“I am human”: White to Hoover, Aug. 5, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“There can be no”: Hoover to Bolling, Feb. 3, 1925, FBI.
9: THE UNDERCOVER COWBOYS
“The two women”: Report by Weiss and Burger, April 29, 1924, FBI.
“unbroken chain”: Transcript of interview with White, NMSUL.
“almost universal”: Report by Weiss and Burger, Aug. 12, 1924, FBI.
“I’ll assign as many”: Transcript of interview with White, NMSUL.
These agents were still: Information on the members of Tom White’s team comes largely
from the agents’ personnel files, which were obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act; White’s FBI reports, letters, and writings; newspaper accounts; and
the author’s interviews with descendants of the agents.
White first recruited: The former New Mexico sheriff was named James Alexander Street.
White then enlisted: Eugene Hall Parker was the former Texas Ranger who was part of
White’s undercover team.
“where there is”: Personnel file of Parker, April 9, 1934, FBI/FOIA.
In addition, White: The deep undercover operative was an agent named Charles Davis.