Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operations, the House Select Committee on Assassinations has shed little new light on the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. But when the committee begins public hearings scheduled for next week, it will produce some evidence that, if nothing else, is bound to embarrass the FBI...
Committee investigators have received documents from FBI files showing that the bureau unaccountably, never followed up an intriguing story about King's death told to an agent by an informant in 1973. The informant reported that Russell G. Byers, 46, then an auto parts dealer in St. Louis, had told him that two Missourians-Stockbroker John R. Kauffmann and Patent Attorney John H. Sutherland-had offered him $50,000 in 1967 to arrange for King's assassination. Byers said that he turned down the offer. Subsequently, the New York Times obtained another FBI document, quoting Byers as saying...
...killings as the Mob's handiwork but were stumped about the motive. They kept associates of the gang under surveillance, tapped their phones and pressed informants for underworld gossip. The break finally came when an associate of the thieves, who had fled West, was picked up by the FBI...
...FBI hopes the investigation will enable them to make a case against Accardo. Despite his age (72) and a heart ailment, Accardo, a former bodyguard for Al Capone, heads the ruling Chicago crime triumvirate, which also includes Jackie ("the Lackey") Cerone and Joe ("Doves") Aiuppa...