COPS ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS

"On another ocassion I had received a call from an FBI agent requesting a meeting to discuss a very important and urgent situation.  I told him to come on out to my office and within the hour he was explaining to me the extortion case he was working on involving the Lauinger Library of the university.  He stated that four different families in Fairfax County, Virginia had received letters stating that if they didn't place $25,000 in certain books in the Lauinger Library their daughters would have acid thrown in their faces on their wedding day.  The perpetrator had stipulated a particular date and provided the titles and call numbers of the books that the money was to placed in.  These books had been checked out previously by the perpetrator and the insides had been hollowed out to where a packet of money could be inserted.  He then returned the books back to their shelves.  These books were in four different sections of the library, so, it was necessary to set up four surveillance cameras to cover these shelves.  We discussed this matter with Mr. Lamb who in turn contacted John Quinn, the head librarian, and asked him to come to our office.  John came right away and was briefed on the situation and it was determined that he would have the library closed the following day under the pretense of having the air conditioning system repaired.  This way the FBI agents could bring in their equipment, set up their surveillance cameras and establish an area where they could monitor the cameras..."