Word: detector
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Silverman report suggests that Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman whose body was found in an abandoned car on June 11 in New York City, may have been murdered because of his role in the Donovan probe. Furino flunked a lie-detector test on April 27, when he claimed that he had never collected any payoffs from Donovan. He later made two appearances before the grand jury investigating Donovan. On June 2 Silverman subpoenaed John DiGilio, Furino's superior in the Genovese family, to appear before the grand jury as well. The next day Furino vanished. Silverman's report...
...vice president in charge of labor relations for New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. FBI agents quizzed Furino in January 1981, when Donovan's confirmation hearings were under way in the Senate, but he denied ever having met Donovan and offered to take a he detector test...
...Berkeley Physicist P. Buford Price also thought he had found a monopole. Looking for cosmic rays, Price and three colleagues developed a multilayered plastic sandwich to record the tracks left by subatomic particles and launched the contraption over Iowa in a helium balloon. During three days, the particle detector recorded 75 hits, one much different from the rest. When Price published a paper claiming to have found a monopole "candidate," the scientific community's excitement soon gave way to skepticism. In the end, Price admitted he had been a bit hasty. Says Price of Cabrera: "His technique is extremely...
...Government to keep its own secrets. Reporters are surprised and incredulous when Reagan tells Barbara Walters that what troubles him most after a year in office is leaks. The press looks the other way when the Pentagon asks senior officials to take humiliating lie-detector tests in a futile effort to stop leaks. Nor does it worry too much about the motives of a leaker, only whether he is peddling trustworthy goods...
...Poland, and the Washington Post has reported on a secret Pentagon study indicating that military costs over the next five years may be $750 billion more than now projected. Furor about this latter leak prompted Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and some associates to volunteer to take lie-detector tests to show they were not culpable. Even as the White House was considering new ways of dealing with the problem, word was beginning to leak about another sensitive matter: the Administration's decision to sell Taiwan F-5E fighter jets, rather than the more advanced model it had requested...