Word: gruenewald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bird, however, FBI agents fitted it with an eavesdropping bug and a small radio transmitter that constantly signaled its whereabouts. Sepe's next mistake was to boast about the Lufthansa caper to passengers in his car -taped conversations that the FBI found most interesting, especially those with Peter Gruenewald, who worked as a Lufthansa cargo agent...
...Gruenewald apparently is blessed, or cursed, with a sympathetic ear. Authorities believe he was also told by Louis Werner, 46, a longtime fellow Lufthansa employee, how Werner had helped set up the robbery. Werner had left his post for more than 90 minutes so that a Brink's crew could not find anyone to sign for the pickup of the cash. That key move kept the money at the airport over a weekend, just as the gang had planned. Werner was promised $300,000 for his role. When Gruenewald seemed nervous about keeping his secret, Werner gave...
When agents began to question Gruenewald, he decided it would be prudent not to answer. Instead, he booked airline flights to Bogota, Manila, Tokyo, Taiwan, anywhere far from Queens. Learning of this, FBI agents decided they could wait no longer. They seized Sepe, whose beeping radio made his T-bird easy to follow, and they also grabbed Gruenewald and Werner. The good listener was charged as a material witness. The FBI hopes that his detention will lead gang members to feel that someone who knows a lot is telling all, thus causing even more falling out among the thieves...
...whole produciton becomes a litany of praise for conventional values against the challenge of art and change as envisioned by a failed poet through three manhattans at a Grosse Point cocktail party. The conception of a production is the director's task and, if nostalgia is what Mr. Gruenewald thought the play was about, then he is guilty of mis-reading his text. Done in the way the Loeb has seen fit to do it, Ah, Wilderness is no better as a comedy than Father Knows Best, a vehicle this production unfortunately resembles...