Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents got wind of the Sandia operation when they tapped the telephone of Robert McGuire, described in a police affidavit as a "known gambler and bookie." A remarkable message was transmitted from McGuire's phone at 6:39 p.m. on Oct. 11. No voice spoke and no ear listened: the electronically encoded message was sent by a portable terminal and it was received by a computer at Sandia. The information conveyed: data about gambling...
Straw's troubles emerged last June, when A. Richard Benedek, a private New York dealer, filed a complaint against Straw in the Superior Court of Essex County, Mass. The two had been doing business together since 1975, and everything had apparently gone smoothly. According to the affidavit filed by Benedek, he had invested heavily in three separate partnership deals arranged by Straw. One was to purchase a collection of antique furniture. The second was to buy eleven paintings that included a Mary Cassatt and a Winslow Homer. The third involved a spectacular $15 million group of 31 old masters...
...Harvard, during November 1978, Turner reiterated the agency's determination to ignore the guidelines. University of California students sought relevant files on secret recruiting under the Freedom of Information Act last year but the courts deemed them non-releasable (Gardels v. CIA). In an affidavit, however, the agency did reveal it had covert relations with faculty members. Now Brown University is applying pressure to Turner in an attempt to end covert recruitment...
...suit also focuses on a report prepared by a geo-technical consulting firm which indicates that "extensive deposits of very corrosive acid sludge lie directly in the path of the proposed Red Line extension tunnel," an affidavit filed by the Red Line Alert states. The defendants claim the original EIS does not mention the problem of the acid sludge...
...project was "only marginally justified." Added Resor: "The Tennessee-Tombigbee project continues to lack that margin of economic safety which typically marks federal investments in water resource development." But Al Fitt, who served as special assistant to Resor for civil functions (including Corps of Engineers' projects), submitted an affidavit to the court stating that his boss's memo was intended to approve the actual widening...