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Absolutely an ugly rumor. There is nothing to substantiate that, and all of the S/A's assigned can be accounted for.
This was an area surveillance, trying to cover all the banks in a given area. One agent decided to sit in the bank parking lot, and decided he better tell the manager, to avoid problems. The manager had never seen an FBI 'commission book' , and thought it was a phony. He delayed the agent in the bank (without a radio) until a local officer could come there to confirm his identity!
We never did surveillance from a bank parking lot, for just this reason.
But the 'area surveillance' fostered the idea that nothing would happen. They had no specific intelligence that any one bank would be hit.
And in my study of the event, there is no reason to disparage any of the agents. They were not properly trained (no training on high risk felony stops at that time, for example), and had a negative mindset, but they all reacted to the highest standards that could be expected.
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