Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herb Frank...
...suspicion is that two Presidents-Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy -authorized or condoned foul plots by the CIA to do in several foreign leaders. Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, who heads the Senate investigating committee, has claimed to have "hard evidence" of the agency's complicity but nothing that would implicate any President. Still, in the singular relationship of the agency to presidential authority, evidence of a CIA assassination plot would seem to implicate one President or the other, even both, unless, of course, the CIA had become a law unto itself. What the Rockefeller commission report revealed...
...Richard Millar sought to justify most of the payments as legitimate. In many cases they failed to convince skeptical Senators, who expect similar revelations from other companies. One danger is that in the public view, innocent multinationals will be clobbered along with the not so innocent. Said Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the subcommittee, to the Northrop executives: "Your case is to be regarded as representative...
Mysterious Functions. Certainly, the roles of some agents are shadowy. Khashoggi is an example. Another is Frank DeFrancis, a Washington lawyer. He set up the Zurich-based Economic & Development Corp. in 1971 to promote sales of the F-5 round the world; it operated on an understanding that Northrop would ask no questions about what it does to obtain contracts. Northrop is committed to pay EDC a sum estimated as $3.1 million, representing commissions on aircraft already sold...
...habit of dropping bombshells at breakfasts with reporters, let go another last week. Shortly after the orange juice, he confided that he might recommend scaling down or scrapping the tariff boost if OPEC does in fact raise prices. Morton's comment was repudiated immediately by Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb and then by President Ford. Nonetheless, Morton has a serious point: the tariff boost may not be the best way to reduce imports, it acts as a drag on essential as well as nonessential sectors of the economy...