Word: moles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Subcommittee on Investigations last week added to the Teamster boss's woes; it released a report charging that Williams has ties to organized crime and is under the "complete domination" of Kansas City reputed Mob Boss Nick Civella. The report called the new Teamster chief "an organized crime mole operating at senior levels of the Teamsters Union." It also cited evidence that Williams had been involved in a scheme to receive cash skimmed from Las Vegas casinos. The subcommittee asked the Labor Department to investigate Williams' suitability for the Teamster's job and to seek a federal...
...casino town. In their several romantic encounters, Sarandon's cool-headed, warm-hearted social climber comes off as a well-rounded if simple character: "Tell me stuff," she earnestly asks Lou, wanting to know about French wines, Italian opera, good living. Whether John Guare's screenplay or Lancaster's mole-like blindness to subtlety is responsible, though, Lou never acts like anything but a tired, bored Burt Lancaster. "I did it! I really did it!" he giggles after shooting the punks who are after Sarandon, and it sounds like he's celebrating having fooled the director...
Rising in Parliament at 3:30 p.m., the hallowed half-hour at which British Prime Ministers traditionally make important statements, Margaret Thatcher was more declarative before a hushed house. Hollis was no mole, said she, pointing out that although it was difficult to prove his innocence, government investigations did not confirm his guilt. For safety's sake and political ease, however, the Prime Minister called for a review of all public service security procedures. She also ordered one other investigation - into the contacts that Pincher had tapped to produce his story in the first place...
Intriguingly enough, just weeks before the Rovno incident, Holbrook was one of four Army officers recommended for a job as Vice President George Bush's aide-de camp. Was Holbrook the target of a long-shot plot to slip a Soviet "mole" into the White House? An attractive speculation, but doubtful. Says a State Department ex pert: "The KGB can be much slyer than this when it is really recruiting...
...quit the agency in 1970 to run an antiques-exporting firm in Indonesia, but apparently continued to work for the CIA on a contract basis. At some point after his "retirement," with his business on the verge of bankruptcy, Barnett was recruited as a KGB mole...