The office of Gervais Koutangni, the chef de bureau of this field office at the time of my visit, contains a safe full of cash, sometimes as much as thirty thousand dollars, to pay sundry expenses.
(They were eventually exposed in 1971 after activists stole thousands of incriminating documents from one of the bureau's field offices in Pennsylvania).
Following are excerpts from a Feb. 26 letter to Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. from Special Agent Coleen Rowley of the bureau's field office in Minneapolis.
Law enforcement officials said that the reports were prepared by agents in 45 of the bureau's field offices, reporting on interviews as they took place in the investigation of the bombing.
The official, Robert J. Jordan, who currently oversees internal disciplining as an assistant director at F.B.I. headquarters in Washington, will become special agent in charge of the bureau's field office in Portland, Ore.
Now, she has been guiding the establishment of a permanent bureau field office in Karachi, where Mr. Pearl was seized.
Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. conducted a telephone conference with the heads of the bureau's 56 field offices telling them to re-examine terrorism cases for fresh leads.
It is a constant shifting of priorities," wrote the FBI official who was based out of the bureau's Charlotte field office. .
F.B.I. officials have asked each of the bureau's 56 field offices to submit plans for monitoring events in their regions.
The agent, Coleen Rowley of the bureau's Minneapolis field office, is not a counterterrorism specialist and does not have access to detailed intelligence about Al Qaeda and its planning.
Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the F.B.I., approved the plan, which was described in a memo sent in spring 2008 to the bureau's field offices.
