Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials picked up a tip that Big Sal Sinno, who was then living in Wisconsin, might be willing to implicate Provenzano in the murder of Castellito. Investigators also tried to induce Briguglio to turn state's evidence; he was shot to death last March in Manhattan. But the FBI guarded Sinno carefully, and last week, as police marksmen patrolled the courthouse, he was the prosecution's star witness...
...line for Tony Pro. They plan to ask the courts in New Jersey to keep him from regaining his union power, if he manages to leave prison, where he could spend the rest of his life. Moreover, Tony Pro may encounter the vengeance of Mafia leaders. But FBI officials believe that even the threat of death would not persuade Tony Pro to tell them about the Hoffa case. Said one investigator: "Pro has many faults -but talking isn't one of them...
Rebuttal from the FBI...
...work on this new mission, making the final drop at Woodbridge just before the FBI closed in. The agents had no problem identifying their quarry: Enger and Chernyayev had used cars-observed near the drop-off points-registered in their own names...
...FBI men later said they had wanted to seize the three Soviets months ago, but that the State Department was reluctant to have the U.N. employees arrested. The department dropped its objections, says the FBI, when shown photographs of the Russians retrieving that sour-smelling milk carton from the base of the South Amboy telephone pole...