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...current defense scandal has no doubt contributed to Congress's stingy mood. In mid-June, subpoenas were issued and FBI agents staged surprise searches in more than three dozen homes and offices in twelve states. The 19 companies subpoenaed or searched, some of which are likely targets of the investigation, are a Who's Who of 19 defense contractors. Among them: Electronic Data Systems, Gould, Hazeltine, Litton, Loral, LTV, Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Teledyne, Unisys and United Technologies. Since the raids, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., has been delving into charges that some of these defense contractors...
What we have here is The Odd Couple on the Lam, with Mardukas trying to slip out of Walsh's clutches and the bounty hunter trying to evade the intricate triple pursuit that Screenwriter George Gallo has structured and Director Martin Brest has smartly executed. The FBI, led by burly, surly Alonzo Mosely (Yaphet Kotto), wants the accountant to testify against his former employers. The gangsters want him dead before that happens. And Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton), a rival bounty hunter, dull witted and implacable, wants to abduct the abductee and claim the fee for himself...
That is what the FBI wants to determine. Two weeks ago, agents armed with search warrants showed up at the offices of Hazeltine, Parkin, Lackner and Berlin to pore through their papers. A search warrant directed them to look for "bank accounts of Berlin in which payments from Lackner may have been deposited in connection with his criminal activities pertaining to Government contracts...
Lackner denies any criminal activities and says, "I never paid him ((Berlin)) anything." But he does not seem to have convinced the FBI. The agents who searched his home and office, Lackner told TIME, grilled him extensively about supposed payments to Berlin and played for him several secretly taped recordings of his telephone conversations. One call was placed by Lackner to Berlin from Parkin's house. Lackner insists he was only trying to arrange to have a cup of coffee with Berlin. Nonetheless, Berlin has been reassigned, and the uproar has held up the award of the IFF contract. Parkin...
...FBI can prove there was an exchange of money for secret information, it will be a classic example of the most spectacular part of the Ill Wind mess. One clue to the kind of information often sought: FBI agents searched the Washington office of William Tallia, vice president of Pratt & Whitney, on the authority of a search warrant alleging that the company had copies of sensitive documents filed with the Pentagon by archcompetitor General Electric. Both companies were selling engines for the Air Force F-18 fighter and the Navy's V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft...