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William J. Burns

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    …in New York City by William J. Burns, a former Secret Service agent. Means’s enthusiasm for unscrupulous but productive practices—such as breaking and entering, wiretapping, and extortion—soon earned him a prime place among Burns’s staff of investigators. Just prior to accepting that job, Means had inveigled his way into the…

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