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Fanning and Executive Editor Stan Abbott launched the series when they began to suspect that the chief local beneficiary of the pipeline boom was the Teamsters. Three newsmen-Howard Weaver, Bob Porterfield and Jim Babb -were assigned full time, leaving only five reporters to cover the rest of the news. In the next three months, the trio accumulated files on 600 individuals and 250 union-related corporations...
...autonomous that it ran its own airlines and set up its own businesses to act as covers for agents and even created its own insurance companies, whose total assets amount to more than $30 million. More disturbing to the committee was the fact that the CIA put academics, newsmen and missionaries on its payroll and propagandized not only foreigners but Americans. CIA types wrote books backing up U.S. policy that were made available in the U.S.-sometimes after they had been favorably reviewed by other CIA types...
...Smith as Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times, Kaiser as bureau chief for the Washington Post. Both were relegated to Moscow's ghetto for the foreign press. Necessarily, their accounts overlap; they frequently describe the same events-the two were the first foreign newsmen to interview Solzhenitsyn, for example-and even the same routines by Comedian Arkadi Raikin...
...first to take a shot at Kissinger was Melvin Laird, one of the chief cooks in Ford's kitchen Cabinet, who predicted to newsmen that "we will have a new Secretary of State in the next Ford Administration." Four days later, Rogers Morton, Ford's campaign chairman, told a delegation of California Republicans that after seven years as the nation's top diplomat, Kissinger "has enough scars to worry about. I'm sure Mr. Kissinger is getting toward the end of a long political career...
...oceanic mining and exploration ship. Its real mission remains the subject of suspicion. Despite Government denials, there is speculation that the ship may have been performing different duties-like implanting a weapons systern on the ocean floor. Last week the Government sought to dispel those suspicions by allowing newsmen to visit the huge barge that accompanied the Glomar Explorer on the mission. The craft looked harmless, but it was not large enough to accommodate a retrieved Soviet submarine, as the CIA at first asserted...