Word: asselin
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Checking the background of many foreigners--even those who, like Veliotis, are naturalized Americans--can be exceptionally difficult. Sometimes U.S. investigators have language problems; often foreign governments are not cooperative. Subcommittee Staff Investigator Fred Asselin says that frequently when information from abroad proves hard to find, it is simply not checked: "Every time they can't verify something, they say, 'Let's assume he's telling the truth.' "U.S. military contractors now employ 10,675 émigrés from Communist countries who have been cleared by security agencies or are in the process of being cleared. Among those...