Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the next year they sold thousands of messages, diagrams and computer codes to the resident Soviet agents, including a KGB colonel with steel teeth. The Soviets wound up unwittingly bankrolling Daulton's drug operation, and the pair came to grief only after an unannounced delivery to the embassy...
The search that produced such startling "results began routinely enough when investigators of the New Mexico Organized Crime Strike Force, a special state investigative unit, started looking into underworld activities. The allegations that developed were both dismaying and frightening. They involved a college basketball scandal, which was bad enough, but...
The agents got wind of the Sandia operation when they tapped the telephone of Robert McGuire, described in a police affidavit as a "known gambler and bookie." A remarkable message was transmitted from McGuire's phone at 6:39 p.m. on Oct. 11. No voice spoke and no ear...
Police claim that the person doing the syndicate's homework on the computer was Jerry Shinkle, 40, a Sandia employee with a doctorate in mechanical engineering. Shinkle, says Lee Hollingsworth, the company's chief computer analyst, "is a very bright young man." FBI agents later found betting information...
Although he had a security clearance, Shinkle did not have access, Sandia insists, to the company's two main computers, which contain the classified material. The one that Shinkle is said to have used, says Sandia, had only unclassified material. Still, FBI agents and officials at the Department of...