The Fbi's File on the Burglary

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"I was preoccupied by what i had learned from and just amazed at how it had happened," she says. Seven of the eight burglars agreed to be interviewed for betty's book. Forty three years after break in, all their names became public. "They had such belief that documentary evidence would make all the difference, and it did."

In 1971, a woman visited an F.B.I. office in Pennsylvania. She identified herself as a college student interested in learning about opportunities for women in the F.B.I. None of that was true. She was there “to see whether there were security alarms before we could decide if we could break in.”

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