Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone

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The FBI rendered Diana a posthumous homage. The Bureau admitted it had slandered her in 1970 as part of a counterintelligence program called COINTELPRO. The director of the agency at the time, J. Edgar Hoover, approved the plan: Diana Soren was destroyed because she was destructible. In 1980, Acting Director William H. Webster declared that the days when the FBI used derogatory information to fight supporters of “unpopular causes” were gone forever. Calumny, he said, is no longer our business. Our only concern is criminal conduct.