Word: adamski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number on the export license submitted by the would-be buyer, a Colorado company that wanted to ship the device to West Germany. U.S. Customs in Washington confirmed that the document was a fake. Agents began watching the officers of the Denver concern, Norman Cormerford and Bruce Adamski, who had ordered a $54,000 krypton laser from another manufacturer. That device, used to etch computer microchips, was also bound for West Germany...
Customs agents suspected the real buyer: the Soviets. Aided by West German customs officials, they found a manifest for the laser with a most incriminating address: a physics lab in Moscow. Cormerford and Adamski, charged last week, each face up to seven years in prison. Prankish federal agents decided to send along the Soviet-bound parcels-sort of. They filled the crates with 700 Ibs. of concrete and, inside one, tucked a two-word note, in plainest English...
...also learned that Ralph Picardo, an admitted Mafioso turned Government witness, told the FBI in January 1981 that he had received regular payoffs from Donovan during the 1960s to ensure labor peace. He also alleges that Anthony Adamski, the FBI agent in charge of Donovan's confirmation check, told him that White House Counsel Fred Fielding had called and told Adamski that "the White House wants [the investigation] over with." Picardo's word is unverified, and Fielding last week again denied he had interfered with the Donovan probe...
...seems to have been buried in the Newark offices of the FBI. This apparent suppression of derogatory material about Donovan has angered FBI Director William Webster. TIME has learned that he has shifted two FBI officials in charge of the preconfirmation check of Donovan, Joseph P. Schulte and Anthony Adamski, to other posts in Washington...