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-- As the charges and countercharges flew, U.S. law-enforcement sources quietly acknowledged what the Gates report to Von Raab clearly indicated: that at least some government officials have known since the late 1980s of the secret black network within the bank whose existence TIME disclosed in articles in July. The...
But B.C.C.I. is more than just a criminal bank. From interviews with sources close to B.C.C.I., TIME has pieced together a portrait of a clandestine division of the bank called the "black network," which functions as a global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad. Operating primarily out of...
Local 272 of the Teamsters in New York City was a classic case of how the Mob infiltrated the Brotherhood. This local controls the labor at roughly 85% of the city's 900 parking facilities and comprises 4,600 workers, most of them black or Hispanic. After a 20-year...
If his Oslo speech was a dress rehearsal for the two summits, Gorbachev might want to consider some fine tuning. Senior officials at the White House gave poor reviews to his approach -- "telling us we have to help save the system they've got or they're going to lose...
Foreign governments have been moving even more vigorously against the organization. In Canada the church and nine of its members will be tried in June on charges of stealing government documents (many of them retrieved in an enormous police raid of the church's Toronto headquarters). Scientology proposed to give...