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...willingness to bring Helms to trial may have been supplied last month in an equally controversial but unrelated investigation. The Los Angeles Times reported in August that Justice had decided to drop its prosecution of John Morley, a former high-level official in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who directed the FBI's alleged mail-opening and wire-tapping campaign against the Weather Underground terrorist organization in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bell has frequently second-guessed his department's decision last April to indict John J. Kearney, a Morley underling who headed the FBI office...
...MEANTIME, it is the wise man who hedges his bets on the likelihood of a Helms indictment. Marvin Liebman, director of the Ad Hoc Citizen's Legal Fund for the defense of indicted FBI agents, told the Associated Press last week that he had learned from the "highest sources" in government that the indictments were imminent. The week passed without any further developments on the case, and a Justice Department spokesman said earlier this week that no announcements on the matter would be forthcoming for yet another seven days. But before Richard Helms begins to think he may never breathe...
...week's end Ullo was still behind bars. That was surely a relief to Witnesses Connor, Zander and Petzold. All are in protective custody after alleged death threats by Ullo. They have more reason than most to remember that two victims of the .22-cal. hitters were FBI informants-and four others were potential prosecution witnesses...
...rights to counsel and to remain silent. But it puts the essential blame on the police themselves, especially for what the study asserts is an obsession with the idea of measuring crime-fighting efficiency only by the number of arrests they make. This policy, described by outgoing FBI Director Clarence Kelley in his foreword as "a perspective that does not extend beyond arrest," produces repercussions all the way down to the beat...
...confidentiality of personal banking records at the same time. As a two-year federal study into the abuses of privacy showed earlier this year (TIME, July 18), the microfilm records kept by banks of all the checks written by their customers are being made available, not only to the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service but to an army of local and private snoops as well...