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...research complex, referred to benignly as a "campus" or "Acorn Park," the Levins Laboratory is located. Though security reasons could be cited, the withholding of such information could introduce an error of several hundred feet in the Advisory Committee's estimate of the range of toxic effects from a leak or explosion, and consequently, make the already highly uncertain assessment practically useless...
...SOMEWHAT MORE DISTURBING than the likelihood of a nerve gas leak is the bad faith ADL has fostered in its dealings with the community. From the very beginning of the project, ADL neglected to tell the appropriate city officials about its intentions to test nerve gas in the city until after the million dollar Levins Laboratory was completed. Moreover, company spokesmen have consistently been inconsistent in their explanations about how much of the substances are being tested and what the purpose of the testing really is. Finally, ADL even went so far as to inform the city that...
That has not been the only change. "Hey," shouted Political Tactician Lyn Nofziger at Regan the other night, "you've been in the White House five weeks now and there has not been a single leak. I can't stand it much longer." Regan holds the press at arm's distance, centralizes paper flow, assigns staff authority meticulously--and thus could spot any big leaker. Benign terror reigns in the back corridors. Information is sorted, compressed, confined. "I'm the small end of the funnel," Regan explains pointedly. The policy struggle around the President has been diminished. Regan...
...carrying Hitler's personal effects crashed near Dresden in the last days of World War II. Although the flamboyant Heidemann was known to be excessively preoccupied with Nazi memorabilia, his superior, Thomas Walde, took Heidemann's supposed find very seriously. Presumably in order to minimize the risk of a leak, Walde bypassed Stern's top editors and took the information upstairs to Wilfried Sorge, assistant director of Gruner & Jahr, and Jan Hensmann, a member of the board. In the months that followed, the small group privy to the secret gathered for "reading hours" as each shipment of the black, imitation...
Plant workers failed to grasp the gravity of the situation as it developed, allowing the leak to go unattended for about an hour. Brief and frantic efforts to check the leak failed. As the situation deteriorated, the workers panicked and fled the plant...