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...heart of the settlement process is a funds transfer form that looks like an airline ticket and consists of a top page titled "credit," a carbon page and a bottom page titled "debit." According to Cooley, Lewis defeated the bank's fraud defenses by using the tickets to hoodwink Wells Fargo's computers...
Operation Hoodwink...
OTHER DOCUMENTS recently obtained by The Crimson delineate agent F.J. Baumgardner's memorandum of October 4, 1966, which recommended "a long-range counterintelligence program designed to provoke a dispute between the Communist Party, USA, and La Cosa Nostra' under the code name of Hoodwink...
...assessing the tangibleresults of the new cointelpro, Hoover pointed out that the Communist Party headquarters in New York had recently been bombed--"a typical hoodlum technique," he said. But Hoover decided to cancel Hoodwink on July 31, 1968, explaining in a memo that the Communist Party was not concerned with "civic issues" and "reformism," and could not be goaded into responding to the FBI provocation...
Small wonder. Inmates apparently learned how to crack the computer code governing Internal Revenue Service audits. Since prisoners must file tax returns on any outside income, some saw a golden opportunity. Knowing how to hoodwink the computer, they loaded their returns with all kinds of bogus claims for refunds, with little fear of being audited. One convict was finally caught. Last week he went on trial for receiving $20,000 in illegal refunds. Others are sure to follow him to the dock, since the total rip-off could range anywhere from $150,000 to $6 million. Back to making license...