Very Special Agents: The Inside Story of America's Most Controversial Law Enforcement Agency--The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
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When James Moore joined the ATF in 1960 it was an arm of the Internal Revenue Service with one job: to catch the Mafia bootleggers whose distilleries cheated Uncle Sam of millions in tax revenue. During his twenty-five years of service Moore saw the organization shift to enforcing of gun laws be reborn as a separate bureau and take on bombings and arson cases that most law officers wrote off as impossible to solve. Moores personal from-the-hip history spans the long-running war against dons and drug dealers and covers agents daring infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan Hells Angels and other violent groups. He reveals the cutting-edge forensics work that helped crack the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings and also provides an insider account of the raid on the Branch Davidians at Waco. Finally Moore discusses the ATFs rivalry with the FBI and the political power games that impede the governments ability to fight crime.
