Word: fbi
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...cries of alarm seemed justified. Sources close to the investigation, conducted jointly by the FBI and the Naval Investigative Service, predicted that at least 100 people will be indicted within the next 90 days. Among the suspects are past and present Pentagon officials, as well as industry employees and consultants who allegedly paid bribes for inside information that gave companies an unfair advantage in bidding for contracts. Two Democratic Congressmen or their staffs are also under scrutiny. Eventually, Operation Ill Wind may rank as one of the biggest federal white-collar crime cases ever prosecuted...
...FBI, former Director William Webster and his successor, William Sessions, approved the investigation under the guidance of William Weld, then chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns. Both officials resigned from their posts in late March, after maintaining that Attorney General Meese may have violated conflict-of- interest laws. Word of the inquiry was kept away from Meese until just before Burns left. The reason: their boss was mentioned in one taped conversation between suspects in the probe. Only after investigators were satisfied that Meese was not implicated did Burns brief the Attorney...
After getting details of the budding Pentagon scandal from Carlucci last week, President Reagan summoned to the White House his top law-enforcement officials, including the Attorney General, the FBI director and U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson, who is coordinating the grand jury work in Alexandria, Va. Reagan asked for a "thorough investigation" of the allegations and said he was "very concerned" about them...
...become spy vs. spy in a battle of the bookshelves. The FBI wants to enlist librarians to inform on Soviet nationals or other suspicious characters who check out technical books. No way, says the American Library Association, which calls the program "an unconscionable and unconstitutional invasion of the rights of library users." FBI Director William Sessions vows to continue his efforts: "We will go wherever our intelligence takes...
Police agencies readily admit that they can learn a lot about a person by examining household garbage. Both the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration regularly engage in trash searches, as do many police departments. "People throw away all kinds of things," observes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation. "Phone numbers, trace evidence, bank statements -- you'd be amazed." Most lower courts that have reviewed police trash searches have given them the green light, and now that the high bench has done the same, more detectives can be expected to prowl through refuse...