Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expose related illegalities in others. After pursuing the CIA for more than nine months, Democratic Senator Frank Church's Select Committee on Intelligence Activities last week shifted to the Internal Revenue Service and its harassment of citizens for political purposes. En route, the committee took potshots at the FBI as well...
...FBI came under fire from the Church committee's scrutiny because it also had made a highly improper request of IRS. In 1964, the committee revealed at a public hearing last week, the FBI asked IRS for the names of donors to Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. According to Church, the FBI got the names from IRS and planned to send out phony letters, using the stationery of the target civil rights group, to all donors. The letters, which were to have included King's copied signature, would have warned that IRS was launching...
Alexander was praised for abolishing a special IRS unit (the Special Services Staff), which had been set up during the Nixon Administration to examine the tax status of controversial, but wholly legal, political and charitable groups. The IRS between 1969 and 1973 had also fulfilled an FBI request to check the taxes of some 8,000 American citizens and 3,000 organizations, including Columnist Joseph Alsop, then New York Mayor John Lindsay, Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., Author Norman Mailer, B'nai B'rith, Associated Catholic Charities, Americans for Democratic Action, the John Birch Society, Common Cause...
...reasoning was odd. The Mafiosi were said to feel they were unfairly getting too much heat from investigators working on the case. If the body was produced, the mobsters believed, their innocence could somehow be proved. No less curious was the fact that the informant went not to the FBI or Michigan state police but to the staff of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson...
...week wore on, Senator Jackson withdrew his committee's investigators from the hunt. The FBI, meanwhile, was checking out a report that Hoffa's body had been stuffed into a trash compactor, compressed and hauled away to a landfill project by a sanitation company owned by the Mafia...