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Hamilton's go-between was British Major George Beckwith, who was assumed to be Britain's de facto Minister to the U.S., but who in fact had been a master spy since 1780 when he arranged the defection of Benedict Arnold. The major and the Secretary rendezvoused five times, Beckwith relaying his information to London in coded dispatches that referred to his high-placed source as "Number...
...ally, Minneapolis Financier Berlin Gamble, 65. Gamble took over as Alleghany president and tried to make peace. When Kirby still balked, Gamble backed out. He sold 1,000,000 of his shares to a Kirby ally, Murray Lincoln, president of Nationwide Insurance Co. Last week, acting as a go-between for the Murchison brothers, Gamble sold 1,600,000 more to Kirby and his associates...
...alone got hold of 59,000 lipstick tubes, which an underground labor force filled with homemade batter and distributed nationwide. Top executives at the plant who, complained the paper, "considered the factory their patrimony," were paid from $220 to $1,660 a month each, while Kotlyar's go-between got all travel expenses plus 55? a tube. No playboy, Kotlyar plowed his profits into jewelry and state bonds, and. according to the press, "dreamed of accumulating more valuables." He will face a firing squad...
Confided the voice on the phone to Attorney General Robert Kennedy: Bernard Goldfine has some things he wants to talk about. On that word from a go-between for Goldfine, Kennedy sent an aide flying to Boston to hear out the ailing, aged (70) industrialist. Since then, Goldfine has made at least one trip to the Justice Department. The word in Washington: facing tax-evasion charges, Goldfine hopes to sing his way out of a stiff sentence, is telling of previously undisclosed gifts to high Government officials...
Budget recommendations, as well, flowed downhill. In the past, the process started with budget men in the services, moved through the service chiefs, on up through the service secretaries to the Joint Chiefs, and then to the Defense Secretary, who became the arbitrating go-between for the White House, Pentagon and Budget Bureau. This time the budget work started from the recommendations of civilian task forces, continued through McNamara and then to the military chiefs and services (as a sort of courtesy ploy), and finally to the White House. The New Frontiersmen claim proudly that their approach to the budget...