This daring, startling inside look at the Federal Bureau of Investigation by one of its former agents is a first-person report that spares neither honesty nor humor. Norman Ollestad was an earnest young California attorney when he decided to dedicate his life to fighting crime and subversion. To him, the F.B.I. was an awe-inspiring organization made up of men of purity, virtue and courage. Ollestad joined the F.B.I. The next few years provided him with a sad disillusionment. It began with a rude awakening the first day in class . . . carried forward through his meetings with J. Edgar Hoover, the pedantic, yet often inadequate training, the tradition of lies and deceptions, the unhealthy implications in F.B.I. official attitudes. INSIDE THE F.B.I. is a book that needed writing. It is a book that F.B.I. agents will buy and read in secret, publicly disown and privately cheer. No conscientious American can read this book without being concerned about the obvious limitations of the man who directs the F.B.I., the manner in which it works and the things that it does and fails to do because of the peculiar way it is controlled. This is a brave book ... and one you won't quickly forget.