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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well known that when the CIA had dirty work to do in Cuba, it turned to an organization that had long tentacles around that country: the Mafia. In 1961 the CIA, according to reliable sources, put out a contract to Mafia Leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli for the assassination of Fidel Castro (TIME, March 17). In a separate and equally futile action, TIME has learned, the CIA enlisted other Mafia figures to do some spying in Cuba in preparation for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion...
...repeal of the "sequestration" orders that Nasser had used to seize the land and property of the upper class. According to some estimates, there are now more millionaires in Egypt than there were under King Farouk. At least some of them have made their piles through kickbacks on government contracts, especially for arms and heavy vehicles. Forty percent of the total cost of a contract often finds its way into various private pockets...
Rosovsky called the meeting, members of the department said last week, in light of publicity regarding Kearns's attempt to terminate her contract with Basic Books, for publication of the involved manuscript, a 480-page book about former President Lyndon B. Johnson...
...late April Kearns signed another contract--calling for an advance of $1,30,000 more than her Basic Books advance--with Simon & Schuster, for a book about Johnson the intends to write jointly with her finance, Richard N. Goodwin, a former aid to Johnson. Basic Books has since used Kearns, Goodwin, Simon & Schuster and Goodwin's literary agent...
Leahy said that a large amount of the $400,000 grant was unused by the Harvard group's members, and would be returned to the Iranian government under the terms of the contract...