Review
THE CULT OF J.
By Arthur
INSIDE THE FBI, by Norman Ollestad. Lyle Stuart, New York. 319 pp. $5.95.
The image projected by the American mass media of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is that of an organization run with inexorable efficiency by selflessly idealistic young men of heroic caliber. Former FBI agent Norman Ollestad's book informs us that this image does not correspond to reality. The typical FBI man is neither efficient, idealistic, heroic or even young. According to Ollestad, who was an FBI agent during President Kennedy's administration, the most significant fact about the internal organization of the FBI is that it is a thoroughly institutionalized cult of Director J.