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...Boston area, Cambridge has been hit relatively lightly," Smith said last week, but he said bills have hit throughout the metropolitan area--especially department stores--in the last six months. In a check of eight Harvard Square establishments last week, two banks and one business reported contact with the bogus currency...
...Bogus Clinic. "I'm not a detective," protests Raab, peering through thick glasses at mounds of letters that arrive each week pleading for his services. "I just look for the most reasonable approach to a story." While working for three years as a reporter at WNET, New York's public TV station, Raab dug up enough evidence of illegal practices to close two bogus methadone clinics. He also unearthed the case of Carl De Flumer, sentenced to life for murder in 1946 at the age of 14 and forgotten when state laws concerning juveniles were later changed...
Thieu has become progressively more embarrassing to the United States, as stories break on how U.S. aid is funnelled to the prison system, bogus newspapers, and the Saigon secret police. This year it was discovered that Thieu has blocked investigation into the shady business dealings of a fertilizer company owned by his brother-in-law, has built houses and acquired land with government money, and has profited from the distribution of scarce rice in famine areas. He has also been accused by Catholic priests of smuggling drugs. Father Thanh, a conservative Catholic, stated at a recent anti-administration rally that...
...reported to Sapp that Hornsby had been duly killed and demanded the rest of his $5,000 payoff. To authenticate the deal, police swarmed around Hornsby's suburban home and asked a local TV station to announce that a murder had occurred. The station complied with a bogus bulletin about a killing in a "fashionable Maitland residence." Satisfied that they had enough evidence from the various recorded Sapp-Hernandez conversations, police closed in and arrested the would-be murderer...
...Employee E. Howard Hunt, with bogus identification papers, a wig, a speech-alteration device, and a camera in a tobacco pouch. In addition, the agency provided the White House with a psychological profile of Daniel Ellsberg...