Hoover'sname, carved in stone at the FBIheadquartersonPennsyl-vaniaAvenue, should serve asacaution to thepublicandthededicatedprofessionals who work inside.
Now retired, Coulson (whose book No Heroes: Insidethe FBI's Secret Counter-Terror Force was co-authored by TIME's Elaine Shannon) made inquiries through his network of contacts.
As it turned out, authorities' decision to rely on every tool at their disposal was a wise one: Dykes had planted an explosive device in a ventilation pipe he'd told negotiators to use to communicate with him on his property in the rural Alabama community of Midland City, and also placed another explosive device insidethe bunker, theFBI said in a statement late Tuesday.