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1976, and for domestic security investigations on April 3, 1576. (The latter were superseded March 21, 1983.) Kelley’s most significant management innovation, however, was implementing the concept of "Quality over Quantity" investigations. He directed each field office to set priorities based on the types of cases most important in its territory and to ‘concentrate resources on those priority matters. Strengthening the ‘ "Quality over Quantity" concept, the FBI as @ whole established three national priorities: foreign counterintelligence, organized crime, and white-collar crime. To handle the last priority, the Bureau intensified its recruitment of accountants. It also stepped up its use of undercover operations in major cases, - During Kelley’s tenure as Director, the FBI made a strong effort to develop an Agent force with more women and one that was more reflective of the ethnic composition of the United States, THE RISE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIME SSS TIN TERNATIONAL CRIME In 1978, Director Kelley resigned and was replaced by former federal Judge William HE. Webster. At the time of his appointment, Webster was serving as Judge of the U.s. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.. Be had previously been a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. In 1982, following an explosion of terrorist incidents worldwide, Webster made counterterrorism a fourth national priority. He also expanded FBI efforts in the three others: foreign counterintelligence, Organized crime, and white-collar Crime. The FBI solved so many espionage cases during the mid- i980s that the press dubbed 1985 "the year of the spy." The most serious espionage damage uncovered by the FBI was perpetrated by the John Walker Spy ring and by former National Security Agency employee William Pelton. ; Throughout the 1980s, the illegal Gruc trade severely Challenged the resources of American law enforcement. [o> €2se this challenge, in 1982 the Attorney General gave the FBI concurrent millions of dollars in controlled substances, the arrests of major Narcotics figures, and the dismantling of important drug rings. One of the most publicized, dubbed "the Pizza Connection" case involved the heroin trade in the United States and Italy. It resulted in 18 convictions, including a former leader of the Sicilian Mafia. Then Assistant Uls. Attorney Louis go. Freeh, who 16