In 1971, eight anti-Vietnam War activists in Philadelphia, weary of F.B.I. efforts at surveillance and infiltration, organized a break-in at a small suburban Bureau field office, where they stole files and sent copies of them to the news media.
Now, she has been guiding the establishment of a permanent bureau field office in Karachi, where Mr. Pearl was seized.
Hoover reluctantly responded by opening a bureau field office in Jackson, Miss., and transferring 153 agents to the state.
As special agent in charge in Portland, Ore., she was the second woman to head a bureau field division.
From that post, she supported the establishment of a permanent office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Budapest, to fight Russian organized crime, the first bureau field office of its kind.
The document encourages bureau field offices to "close PIs [preliminary investigations] that, based on the Baseline Collection and intelligence developed, do not warrant the commitment of further investigative resources".
