Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week the financial chairman, David Packard, resigned, perhaps partly because of criticism of his failure to organize a direct-mail fund-raising drive. He was the second high official to quit the Ford campaign in recent weeks...
...with running a large and illegal spying campaign against antiwar elements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The suit was brought on behalf of 7,200 individuals and 1,000 groups on which the two agencies supposedly kept files, monitored calls and cables and opened mail. Among the defendants are four communications companies-RCA Global Communications, ITT World Communications, Western Union and American Cable and Radio Corp.-that allegedly cooperated with the agencies by helping them monitor communications. Of course it was the U.S. Government that persuaded the companies years ago to cooperate with the intelligence gathering, and, congressional...
...mail openings persisted from 1953 until 1973. In all, the outsides of 2,705,726 pieces of mail were legally photographed. But the CIA also opened up and photographed another 215,000 pieces of mail...
...officials revealed to the committee that they had their own mail surveillance. The agency began in 1940 to inspect (but not open) the letters and packages of those Americans who, in its opinion, "might be willing to sell information to a foreign power." Eventually the FBI set up mail-inspection operations in eight cities, and its targets came to include antiwar demonstrators as well as people mailing pornography. Even though former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stopped the program in 1966, the FBI continued to receive information that the CIA had gathered in its mail openings...
...Watergate. Says Wolfe: "I would have given all my orchids-well, most of them -to have [had] an effective hand in the disclosure of the malfeasance of Richard Nixon." He announces that he drafted but did not send a letter to Leon Jaworski, offering his services. Pity the mail never went through. The national agony might have been avoided-well, most...