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Narc Pushers. Logan was not caught, as previous witnesses had been, by the Knapp Commission, a five-man panel named for its chairman, Whitman Knapp, a Wall Street lawyer. He came forward voluntarily after he had been dismissed from the force last year for taking a $100 bribe from a narcotics dealer. Wishing to get back on the force, he offered to get narcotics informants to cooperate with the commission. Two of his informants were wired with tape recorders and transmitters. These were used to monitor their illicit dealings with policemen. Meetings took place on street corners, in automobiles...
Then a scandal broke. South Dakota Republican Senator Francis Case declared that an oil lobbyist had offered him a $2,500 bribe to support the bill. An angry President Eisenhower vetoed the measure. Asked about the scandal, Connally remarked: "1 had no part in the incident any more than anyone else who was interested in the oil and gas business." After Richardson's death in 1959, Connally was made one of three co-executors of his estate, a job for which he was paid...
...London as a first secretary in their embassy a KGB agent who had been expelled from Britain only three years earlier for trying to bribe an English businessman to sell military secrets. "It's not for me to say that one shouldn't spy," a top member of the Foreign Office told TIME last week, "but there are limits of decency even in that sort of activity." At a meeting of Heath, Douglas-Home, Defense Minister Lord Carrington and Home Secretary Reginald Maulding, the government decided on the mass expulsion...
...four were asked to leave Britain within the past three years. One, a collector of industrial documents, was caught picking up material left for him by another agent in a dead-letter box. Another specialized in obtaining embargoed goods, and attempted to bribe engineers to give him electronic and computer equipment. A third promised a Briton S money if he would get a job in the Ministry of Defense, and a fourth tried to ac? quire a classified telephone directory r from a Defense Ministry employee...
...Muller expects the worst from human beings and has not been disappointed. He once arrested a court clerk in the act of taking a lawyer's bribe right under the judge's nose. He recalls walking into another judge's chambers to find His Honor flagrante delicto with a prostitute he had just acquitted. At a national Democratic Convention, Muller has observed an incumbent President staggering drunk and a naked call girl being thrown out of the hotel room of a prominent favorite...