Word: conduits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceedings are going. There was no hanky-panky about it." Yet McLaren, too, had refreshed his memory since the week before. Now he conceded that he had talked to the chief White House troubleshooter on relations with corporations, Peter Flanigan (see box, next page). "Mr. Flanigan was simply a conduit," McLaren said. Flanigan obtained a report on the financial impact that ITT would sustain if it was required to divest itself of Hartford Fire Insurance Co., as McLaren had been insisting it must. The analysis helped change McLaren's mind. "I read the report and found it persuasive," McLaren...
...more notable of the two escapees was Joel David Kaplan, 44, a New York businessman and nephew of Molasses Tycoon Jacob M. Kaplan, whose J.M. Kaplan Fund was named in a 1964 congressional investigation as a conduit for CIA money for Latin America. The younger Kaplan had been convicted in 1962 for the Mexico City murder of his New York business partner, Louis Vidal Jr. Kaplan claimed at the trial that Vidal, who had been involved in narcotics and gunrunning, had constructed an elaborate plot to disappear. The murder victim, Kaplan maintained, was not even Vidal, and indeed, serious doubts...
...quoted indirectly as saying the Independent had served as a "tax-deductible front" for a $300 contribution made by Richard G. Rockefeller to Miss Shiras's group. I never made such a statement. Indeed, the Independent has never served as a conduit for the funneling of funds to this or any other student group...
...Shiras told her committee members her search had been funded by the "Independent," and instructed them not to talk about the project to other media. Checking this report with Jennings, a CRIMSON reporter was assured the "Independent" was not buying stories from news sources but merely acting as a conduit for expression of Rockefeller's eleemosynary impulses. As to the advantages of such an arrangement over an outright gift, we cannot, and did not, do more than merely suggest one possibility. Jennings said to the CRIMSON reporter, "You guys do this sort of thing...
...World Bank. Don Price was Deputy Chairman of the Research and Development Board of the Defense Department, 1952-53, Associate Director of the Ford Foundation, 1953-54, and Vice President of the Ford Foundation, 1954-59. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund (a suspected CIA conduit), the Rand Corporation, and the Rhodes Trust. Raymond Vernon was Assistant Chief of the International Resources Division of the State Department, 1946-48, the Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, 1951, and Acting Director, 1954. He is a member of the joint Presidential Congressional Commission...