Mont Wesley Swearingen (May 20, 1927 Steubenville, Ohio - November 13, 2019 Hemet, California)[1] was an FBI Special Agent from 1951 to 1977.
He wrote two books drawn from his experience: FBI Secrets (1995),[2] and To Kill a President(2008), an examination of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
He joined the FBI and began his career conducting black bag jobs on Communists in Chicago.
[3] In Kentucky and New York City, he spent years doing serious criminal investigations, which had been his goal in joining the FBI.
But Director J. Edgar Hoover had become fixated on the threat in the 1950s and 1960s that he believed was posed by civil rights groups: first because of links to American communists.