Word: graying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Britain's Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, 58, had just stepped into his silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes' Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the courtyard. One fired a revolver through the rear side window of the limousine, hitting Sykes four times; the other gunman shot Straub twice at close range. Sykes and Straub died later in the hospital...
...kind of national security case to court without spilling secrets at a fair and public trial? The answer has often been that it cannot. But last week the Government was back trying in two cases, one involving the Progressive magazine, and the other former FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III. Both cases illustrate the difficulty of keeping secrets in an open society...
...early and mid-'70s, a series of scandals rocked the intelligence establishment. The CIA and FBI were accused of engaging in illegal covert activities at home and abroad under the guise of national security. Out of congressional investigations came several indictments: Gray and two other FBI officials. Edward S. Miller and Mark Felt, were charged with conspiring to authorize illegal break-ins to track down members of the radical Weather Underground; former CIA Director Richard Helms and a pair of ITT officials were charged with lying to a Senate subcommittee in 1973 about plotting to overthrow Chilean President Salvador...
Senator Frank Church, who chaired the Senate subcommittee in 1973, harshly criticized the department's decision not to prosecute the ITT case. He called the national security claim "the same threadbare excuse so often used by the Nixon Administration to cover up its crimes." Others inveighed against "gray-mail," a lighter shade of blackmail that defense attorneys legitimately or illegitimately use to try to force the Government to reveal information that it wants to keep secret. But the Government did try to get around the graymail defense in the ITT case by asking the judge to rule out irrelevant...
...bring out classified information that might justify their clients' covert operations (the Weatherman, they claim, was dealing with Palestinian guerrillas, Cuba and North Viet Nam). So far the Government has refused to hand over the information. Last week the judge agreed to try Felt and Miller separately from Gray, partly because they claim that they acted on Gray's orders. It appears that Felt and Miller will go to trial, but since prosecuting Gray would bring out very sensitive national security information, the Justice Department now concedes that the ex-director may never be tried...