Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flamboyant Adventurer. Pursuing the investigation in spite of Dassault, police found that De Vathaire had compiled what he regarded as an incriminating dossier concerning the finances and sales of the Dassault conglomerate. Suspicions of blackmail were reinforced when police learned that the seemingly respectable accountant had recently become enmeshed in the French underworld. Around the time of the death of his wife, who drowned in a bathtub last March, De Vathaire took up with a nightclub hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant...
...Georgetown home, Kraft was finally given assurances from Attorney General Edward Levi that his FBI files would be destroyed, and that such taps "would not be authorized" any longer by the Justice Department. Kraft had first learned of the bugs back in 1973; after gaining access to his FBI dossier recently, he learned even more. During a trip to Paris by the journalist back in 1969, FBI agents arranged for a bug in his room at the George V hotel. The result? A befuddled agent's report that Kraft had spoken with a mysterious woman named Jean Monnet...
However, according to dossier number two on Malek (prepared largely by Malek himself) he is at heart a can-do management expert who, he claims, spent only about one per cent of his time on "responsiveness" while at the White House and CREEP. Watergate was the last strand in a web that entrapped an efficiency-minded businessman and his brilliant ideas, according to this picture. Malek was, he points out, one of the few Nixon aides to avoid indictment. "I still don't think anything I did was illegal," he says...
Malek's clipped, matter-of-fact insistence that Watergate didn't effect him or his outlook much reflects the Malek of dossier number two: an arch-typical straight arrow who sped up an upwardly mobile path in the military and in business, and found that political realities cramped his style and ultimately dragged him down into a quagmire he says he didn't see forming...
...perhaps students today would rather hear Fred Malek than harrass him. Maybe the take-charge Malek of dossier number two fascinates them more than the controversial Malek of dossier number one. Even Hildy Simmons, who charges Malek with "selective memory lapses" about his White House role, says she guesses it's important "to know the enemy...