Ex-FBI agent Emmett F. McNamara dies at 103
Photo credit: Handout | Emmett McNamara, the country's second oldest former FBI agent, died of natural causes Dec. 8 surrounded by his family at a hospice center in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 103.
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Emmett Francis McNamara worked closely with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to foil a plot by two German saboteurs determined to detonate the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty.
Years before, he had opened the first FBI office in Maine.
During World War II, the FBI assigned him as the first agent in Suffolk County, where he patrolled the Long Island coast and apprehended a group...
