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Through interviews with consultants and others involved in this network, TIME has pieced together details of one of the deals that is part of the massive investigation. Stuart Berlin, a key civilian contracting officer at the Pentagon, allegedly provided information involving an electronic-testing- device contract worth $100 million to a defense consultant who was a close friend. The information made its way to a Long Island firm that hoped to win the contract. In addition, Justice Department officials told TIME that they have specific, solid evidence that former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman last fall warned Melvyn Paisley...
...story of the testing-device contract begins with the retirement from the Pentagon of William Parkin about five years ago. He had worked for 20 years as a civilian employee of the Navy, rising to become the chief contracting officer on the cruise-missile program. He had a reputation for being tough on contractors; at his retirement party, McDonnell Douglas presented him with a "cost cutter of the decade" award. But afterward, Parkin decided to go through the "revolving door" between the Pentagon and those who do business with it. He set up a consulting firm in nearby Alexandria...
According to Canadian officials, the Soviet diplomats had sought to infiltrate the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, the country's civilian counter-espionage agency. But the most sensitive target was Montreal-based Paramax Electronics, a subsidiary of the U.S. defense contractor Unisys and the prime subcontractor on a frigate- building project for the Canadian navy. In that role, Paramax has access to highly classified American technology involving radar and sonar capabilities and computers that control shipboard weapons systems...
...soldiers had driven up to the palace and fired bursts of gunfire into the air while Namphy seized control. Five miles away, other troops surrounded the home of President Leslie Manigat, who promptly surrendered and was flown with his family into exile in the Dominican Republic. Thus Manigat's civilian rule, which had begun just 130 days earlier as an electoral sham, ended as a military farce...
...wide-ranging inquiry began in 1986 with a tip from an unidentified civilian employee of the Navy, and has concentrated heavily on that branch. But the Naval Investigative Service evidently did not warn Lehman (who resigned last year) that the probe was under way. Even Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was kept in the dark and, until last week, so was Carlucci. No one at the White House was informed until shortly before the matter became public...