Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Outgoing Director Clarence Kelley, who is due to retire by Feb. 15, has been unable to wrest full control from the remaining members of Hoover's inner circle. Within the past five years, moreover, it has been disclosed that a number of the FBI's 8,400 agents have been involved in illegal entries and mail opening. One agent, John Kearney, was indicted last April in New York for illegal surveillance of the radical underground Weatherman group, and Bell has yet to decide whether there will be further indictments pending a report from a ten-man Justice Department...
...This involved purchases of electronic equipment, without competitive bidding, from the Washington-based U.S. Recording Co. between 1963 and 1975. One such purchase of burglar-alarm equipment in 1971 cost $147,261.50, while the same equipment could have been bought from a New York supplier for $81,357. An agent who complained about the cozy -and illegal-purchasing arrangement was told he was not a "team player" and transferred. Apparently, the Hoover aides valued U.S. Recording's silence about FBI eavesdropping practices; they also enjoyed frequent poker parties with the firm's owner, Joseph Tail. No evidence...
...Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric Corp. Allegations about the suspicious nature of Disini's services recently prompted the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which is providing much of the financing for the project, to ask the Justice Department to determine whether Westinghouse made improper payments to a foreign business agent. Troubled by an embarrassing international scandal, President Marcos last week told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein: "Westinghouse has some things to explain to our government. If there has been anything illegal committed by Westinghouse, our lawyers are considering canceling the contract with Westinghouse and giving it to somebody else...
...fans in filmdom, Begelman is a show-biz wizard who helped save a major studio from bankruptcy. To his enemies, he is a relentless competitor whose prominence and prestige reflect the mercenary standard of Hollywood. New York-born and Yale-educated, Begelman elbowed his way into entertainment as an agent. Among his early clients was Judy Garland; in 1967 she and her husband Sid Luft brought legal action against Begelman and his then partner Freddie Fields for misdirecting part of Judy's earnings into their own pockets. Judy dropped the suit a year later, but Luft remains bitter...
...made little difference to Hollywood, which, above all, worships success, and Begelman was wildly successful. As an agent, he was an expert at "packaging"-bringing directors, actors, writers and producers together into deals that would produce profitmaking blockbuster films. In 1973, when Columbia was floundering from huge losses and debilitating debts, Begelman was tapped for the studio's presidency, and brought out a string of flicks that restored Columbia to financial health (net income for the fiscal year ending last June was $34.6 million). Among his big moneymakers...