Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles away found the footlocker with its lock broken and its contents-papers and notebooks-scattered through the underbrush. Last week the Justice Department disclosed that the documents included top secret copies of communications between Washington and the U.S. Embassy in Saigon from 1963 to 1975, and that the FBI for months has been quietly investigating the car's owner, former Career Diplomat Graham Martin...
Although the Justice Department could conceivably charge Martin with violating the U.S. Code for "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," it probably will not. The FBI'S conclusion: the case against the careless diplomat should be dropped...
...them in Government files. However laudable the law's purpose, some of the Freedom of Information Act's most avid users have turned out to be criminals. Last month Convicted Felon Gary Bowdach told a Senate subcommittee that he had filed "scores" of FOI requests with the FBI for himself and fellow inmates at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta "to try to identify informants." Why? "To eradicate them," Bowdach replied...
Indeed, of the 60,000 FOI requests processed by the bureau, about 2,500 of them have come from curious criminals. In one city, which FBI officials refuse to name, 30 organized crime figures-the Who's Who of the area's underworld-filed FOI forms. The Drug Enforcement Administration has received requests for Government information from, among others, Mafiosi Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Rene Picaretto of Buffalo, and Carmine Persico of Brooklyn...
...such terror of Tony Pro that he hid under a bed for two days at the Teamsters' Las Vegas convention in 1976. Last March Salvatore Briguglio was shot to death outside a restaurant in New York's Little Italy to keep him from talking to the FBI about the Hoffa case. Agents promptly tried to convince the other suspects that they had a better chance to survive as protected Government witnesses than on the loose in the streets. So far, none have been willing to testify in court about Jimmy Hoffa's last ride...