Word: kovac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE L. KOVAC Lincolnwood...
...Frank Kovac, 46, a third Ohioan, who has been executive director of the Republican finance committee since 1961. Kovac took a 15-month leave of absence in 1963 and 1964 to help raise money for the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater...
Last May, Kovac tendered his resignation from the finance committee job, effective July 1. Kelly came to suspect that Kovac was planning to go to work for Goldwater's new Republican splinter group, the Free Society Association-and that he meant to take with him some of the National Committee's valuable lists of financial contributors. As the date of Kovac's leave-taking approached, Kelly and three assistants made a nighttime raid on Kovac's office, spent 1½ hours rummaging around in full view of three finance-committee staffers, jimmied open desk drawers, carted...
Spilling the Story. When Kovac's assistants told him what had happened, he not unnaturally hit the ceiling. He complained to Bliss, who said he would look into the matter. Next morning, Kovac came to work, found that a crude refinishing job had been done on his desk: some of the jimmy marks had been removed, but others remained. Whereupon Kovac called a Columbus newspaperman and spilled the whole story. Kovac also denied that he was joining the Free Society Association...
...received, effective immediately, the resignation of my administrative assistant, Mr. William Cody Kelly. I regret that in his enthusiasm he has taken action which is contrary to standards which I have established for my staff." Bliss also insisted that he "had no knowledge" of the office raid until Kovac told him about...