Clarence M. Kelley

Clarence Marion Kelley ( born October 24, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri; † August 5, 1997 ibid ) was an American government official and director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Biography

Kelley was immediately after the conclusion of the 1940 college employee of the FBI. In 1961 he retired from first from his service after he was appointed police chief of his native town Kansas City.

In 1973 he was appointed by U.S. President Richard Nixon as the successor to William Ruckelshaus to the Director of the FBI. He took over the management of a public authority, which was taken on the one hand deeply through the Watergate scandal and the other hand in an organizational change after the death of longtime director J. Edgar Hoover was a year earlier. 1976 there was a minor scandal when it became known that he accepted window curtains and a small office cabinet from the holdings of the FBI for his private house of senior FBI agents. President Gerald Ford refused to release from Kelleys despite these allegations. However, it can be assumed that these allegations also led to the failed re-election of President Ford. During his tenure as FBI Director Kelley led the other hand, a technical modernization to combat crime, and made a focus of this study the authority on "White Collar Crime" ( white collar crime), as well as organized crime.

In 1978, he was replaced as director of the FBI by William Hedgcock Webster.