Word: agent
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When an undercover agent returned from his assignment in Memphis with only 425 lbs. of cocaine instead of the 518 lbs. he was supposed to have seized, federal agents became suspicious. Surveillance revealed that Dan Mitrione Jr., 38, a ten-year FBI veteran, had been involved on the sly in the same drug deals he was assigned to monitor. According to official sources, Mitrione, while working on a project code-named "Operation Airlift," sold the more than 90 lbs. of cocaine skimmed from the Memphis bust for cash and property worth about $850,000, and took bribes from the drug...
Mitrione's father, an Agency for International Development official, was killed in 1970 by left-wing Uruguayan guerrillas. Mitrione resigned from the FBI in June 1983. Last week he pleaded guilty to bribery, conspiracy, and possession and distribution of cocaine. Though only a few FBI agents have been indicted on criminal charges since the agency was set up in 1908, recent times have not been easy. In Los Angeles, former Agent Richard W. Miller is awaiting trial for espionage, the first case in FBI history...
Since Enrique Camarena Salazar, an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, was kidnaped last month in Mexico and subsequently murdered, presumably by narcotics dealers, U.S. officials have suspected the complicity of corrupt Mexican police. Last week John Gavin, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, announced that at least two of the four kidnapers who hustled Camarena into a car in Guadalajara a month before his body was found were, in fact, policemen of the Mexican state of Jalisco. They had been arrested by Mexican federal authorities and had confessed...
...scheduled flights in operation. Thousands of passengers have been stranded from Istanbul to Rio, however, and others have endured service turbulence as supervisors performed such unfamiliar tasks as sorting baggage and serving meals. When a Manhattan traveler whose flight had been canceled demanded to see the management, his ticket agent growled, "I am the management...
...commission staff study urged more active pursuit of corrupt Mob lawyers, calling for extensive use of electronic surveillance and in some cases even - undercover agents to root out the crooked lawyers. A somewhat stepped-up attack has already begun. One catch was Philadelphia Lawyer Kevin Rankin, who discussed his work for a local Mob family and boasted of being like the consigliere in The Godfather. His listener was an FBI undercover agent posing as a corrupt Miami lawyer, and Rankin is now serving a 54-year term for drug conspiracy. Federal lawmen are also trying to nail lawyers who represent...