FBI TO ANNOUNCE HUGE OVERHAUL

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation will reassign
hundreds of agents from local drug and violent-crime investigations
to counterterrorism and intelligence in a sweeping reorganization to
be announced Wednesday.

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The planned reallocation of resources moves almost 500 field agents
to counterterrorism from other details, diminishing the FBI's
involvement in local murder, kidnapping and drug cases and returning
a greater burden for these prosecutions to local law enforcement.
The planned reassignments would affect FBI drug-enforcement efforts
most, bureau documents show. Efforts to combat white-collar crime,
including health-care fraud, also will be trimmed.

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Pubdate: Wed, 29 May 2002
Source: Wall Street Journal (US)
Copyright: 2002 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/487
Author: Gary Fields and John R. Wilke
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?203 (Terrorism)
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