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More than 200 subpoenas. As many as 100 defense contracts subject to cancellation. Tens of billions of dollars at stake. All last week, the revelations coming out of the FBI and Naval Investigative Service probe code- named Operation Ill Wind continued to mushroom into the biggest and most important Pentagon scandal ever...
...Island firm that hoped to win the contract. In addition, Justice Department officials told TIME that they have specific, solid evidence that former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman last fall warned Melvyn Paisley, a former subordinate who became a consultant and is now a central figure in the Ill Wind probe, that he was under investigation. Based on what is now known, it is doubtful that Lehman will be prosecuted or that such a tip was even illegal; but the allegation, if proved, might keep Lehman out of any future Republican Cabinet...
...prove there was an exchange of money for secret information, it will be a classic example of the most spectacular part of the Ill Wind mess. One clue to the kind of information often sought: FBI agents searched the Washington office of William Tallia, vice president of Pratt & Whitney, on the authority of a search warrant alleging that the company had copies of sensitive documents filed with the Pentagon by archcompetitor General Electric. Both companies were selling engines for the Air Force F-18 fighter and the Navy's V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft...
...Pentagon, one fear is that Ill Wind could force officials to invalidate scores of weapons contracts and throw them open for new bids. That could lead to chaos in procurement and delay production of some weapons systems for years. But the brass may have no choice: if investigators prove that a contract was obtained illegally, a court may rule that contract invalid. For example, Grumman Corp. lost the advanced tactical aircraft contract to the combine of McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics. If allegations in Ill Wind search warrants are proved correct, Grumman could sue to have a new competition...
Operation Ill Wind targets some 100 military buyers, suppliers and greedy middlemen in one of the largest U. S. cases of white- collar crime. -- House Speaker Jim Wright turns the sleaze issue bipartisan. -- Howard Baker resigns as chief of staff in a White House that seems ready to turn out its lights. -- The worst drought since 1934 withers much of the West, Great Plains and South...