Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began spraying Friday. Republican Congressman Harold Rogers, in whose district the spraying took place, called it "a tragically silly operation run by a bunch of incompetents." Republican Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee also voiced opposition to scheduled paraquat spraying in his state. For his part, DEA acting Administrator Francis Mullen seemed to be fudging on how many states can expect to be doused by paraquat from the air. Said he: "It could reach 40; it could be three or four...
...real purpose of the operation, DEA's detractors claim, was to encourage countries like Colombia, where marijuana is grown in large fields, to follow suit. Mullen maintained that was not the main goal and insisted that helicopter spraying is useful even on small plots of marijuana in rough terrain...
...incriminating evidence. In a letter to the Labor Committee dated Sept. 17, 1982, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Robert McConnell said that the FBI had "located no information to suggest that such a check was made in any field office." In his own testimony before the Labor Committee, Mullen also contradicted his boss, saying that at the time of Webster's assertion, the field offices had not been asked about Donovan...
...Mullen's testimony cast doubt, as well, on his own statement in January 1981 that the bureau had "no information which would reflect unfavorably upon Mr. Donovan in any manner." This clean bill persuaded the Labor Committee to recommend that Donovan be confirmed. The full Senate approved Donovan in February 1981, but inquiries continued. When a special prosecutor concluded last year that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan, the President proclaimed the case "closed." But evidence that the FBI had withheld information linking Donovan's old firm, Schiavone Construction Co., to organized crime prompted Labor Committee...
...Mullen, now acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is quoted as lamely saying that the FBI's duty was to pass along its findings on Donovan to the White House and not to the Senate. Webster fares little better. In his 1980 memo he stated that Schiavone showed up a number of times in the bureau's files on the Hoffa case, "but that none of these suggested any criminality or organized-crime associations." Webster has since been unable to find these references and, chides the committee, "has no idea where he got that information. The background...