Word: fbi
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Kissinger may not have fully comprehended his CIA connections because the agency often laundered its funds through a series of foundations to obscure their origins. But the disclosure last week of a 1953 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document shows that Kissinger consciously sought and directly worked with the FBI while at Harvard...
...contacts with the FBI in 1953 imply a much earlier and more thorough understanding of FBI operations than Kissinger claimed in his defense against Morton Halperin's charges of illegal FBI wiretapping. Kissinger supported his case by arguing that he had taken then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's word that the taps were legal...
...attendance at this Donovan dinner, the twelfth since 1962, is unusually large. The crowd of more than 400 includes not only OSS veterans and friends and family members but eight Senators, FBI Director William Webster and two wartime spymasters who went on to head the CIA, Richard Helms and William Colby. The old espionage hands come partly out of nostalgia for a simpler age of spying, before cold wars and dirty tricks scandals and congressional oversight committees. There is also a perceptible closing of the ranks behind the nation's now-beset intelligence establishment...
Curran and his team of three lawyers, four FBI agents and four investigative accountants pored through 80,000 bank and business documents and took 3,800 pages of testimony from 64 witnesses before a federal grand jury in Atlanta. The 180-page public version of Curran's report (a fuller version, with transcripts of testimony before the grand jury in Atlanta, remains sealed) demonstrates beyond serious challenge that no family or loan funds were siphoned into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. More narrowly, it finds that Presidential Adman Gerald Rafshoon did not borrow from any bank...
...FBI agents were allowed to question Sindona for only an hour a day because of his weakened condition, and they learned little about where he had been...