for how the FBI should conduct domestic national security investigations. The new rules required the bureau to produce evidence of a crime before conducting wiretaps or searching homes, reduced the number of investigations from 21,414 in 1973 to 4,868 in 1976. Levi worked with Clarence M. Kelley, a career law enforcement officer whom Nixon had appointed FBI director after Hoover’s death in 1972, to reduce the embezzlement that had become common among agents. Levi and Kelley also improved coordination between the FBI and CIA—a practice Hoover had discouraged.
