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...confirmation as Secretary of Labor. FBI agents, he testified, had found nothing unsavory in Donovan's business dealings as a construction executive, despite the rumors of underworld connections. One troubled Senator asked if the investigation might not have been more thorough. No, replied Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen, "I do not know what else we could have done...
...could and should have done. It could have informed the committee, as it did White House Counsel Fred Fielding, that underworld informants had linked Donovan with known mobsters. In addition, FBI agents could have pursued other suggestive leads. They did not until months later, TIME has learned, because Mullen ordered his investigators to ease off Donovan, with what a top FBI official says was the tacit agreement of White House aides. Mullen, now acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, says the charges against Donovan were too "nebulous, way out" and "nonspecific." Thus, during the 1981 committee deliberations, according...
...Mullen had told the Senators flatly that "there is no information available to the FBI which indicates that" Donovan or his Schiavone Construction Co. were "mobbed up." At the time, many committee members were skeptical, and Mullen admits his testimony may have been too "positive" and "sweeping." With last week's more serious claims that Mullen chose not to ferret out more damaging allegations against Donovan, a new congressional inquiry may be in the offing. Says Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton, a member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee: "The aroma is so pungent that I think there will...
...even keener interest than Mullen's role is why the White House agreed to the curtailment of the FBI's probe of Donovan. The day before the Labor Secretary's confirmation hearings began, an FBI official telephoned Fielding and informed him of "a tape recording" linking Donovan socially with "hoodlums." Fielding insists that he passed along all important information to his superiors, but says the White House was not fazed by the unsubstantiated charges. Counters one senior presidential adviser: "Fred was the only one directly in touch with the FBI investigation...
...Harvard looked like it was going to cruise to its fifth straight by win, but after another Yale tally, Crimson Coach Carole Kleinfelder ordered her team into a stall, which as defender Beth Mullen put it, "was a little disorganized" and allowed the Bulldogs two late goals that broke the Crimson's middle-of-the-season winning streak at four...