A Review Of Louie Freeh's Book

I'm reading Louis Freeh's "autobiography" entitled My FBI [Freeh was former FBI Director under Clinton, and served during 9-11 investigation under Bush]. The book is a piece of propagandistic crap, almost not worth reading. I didn't get anything of any importance out of it in the first 164 pages, but then I hit page 165 and here's what I saw:
 

Louie Is Impressed With Elie Wiesel

I'd also gotten to be friends with Elie Wiesel. Read his books and talked with him, and I remembered well the story of the local Hungarian policeman who knocked on the' Wiesels' window one night and tried to warn them to flee town because something was about to happen. The family didn't flee. Elie's father couldn't com*prehend the evil that-was already forming, and they were hauled away the next day to the transports and from the transports to the death camps.

One Policeman Can Make A Difference

But the courage of that single policeman stuck with me, his apparent attempt to do good when so much malevolence was all around him.
 

Police In The Early Days Of The Holocaust

To make sure that lesson got through to our new recruits at the FBI, I asked Michael Berenbaum, then the director of the Research Institute at the Holocaust Museum, to put together several hours of instruction on the role of the police in the early years of the Holocaust, and Michael and his staff came up with a powerful presentation: archive photos, first-person accounts of both good and bad police, scenes that you just couldn't turn away from. [Nobody knows better than a former FBI Director that "first person accounts" are unreliable and inaccurate].

FBI Recruits Must Visit The Holocaust Museum

Then I asked the people at Quantico to include a visit to the museum in their
new agents training program. There was some resistance at first. The sixteen weeks are already jam-packed. But I asked them to try it with one class and see what the feedback was, and the "reviews were incredible. Not only did we continue it with our training, but the program is now being used by the FBI's National Academy, also based at Quantico, which to date has trained over 39,000 local, state, federal, and foreign police officers in its premier eleven-week program.

A Yiddish Hero?

To further drive home the point that one man of extraordinary courage and moral character can make a great difference, I also had a memorial garden dedicated at Quantico to honor Giovanni Falcone, near the spot he had visited in 1982 when the groundwork was first being laid for international cooperation on the Pizza Connection cases.

Abe Foxman And The ADL

Over the years, the Anti-Defamation League had done training sessions for the Bureau. No one, after all, has a better feel for hate crimes than the ADL. When I learned that the group had a Holocaust exhibition touring its own regional offices, I asked Abe Foxman, the longtime ADL executive director and one of my heroes, if we could tour it through our field offices, too.

Elie Wiesel Lectures FBI Trainees

To kick off the program, we had Elie Wiesel speak at the first Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony at FBI headquarters. Again, the feedback was outstanding.