Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than two years after it began, the Justice Department's investigation into the Pentagon bribery scandal, code-named Ill Wind, may finally be poised to blow in some major indictments. Charles Gardner, a former top executive of Unisys Corp., pleaded guilty last week to bribing former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Melvyn Paisley in return for Paisley's help in winning at least $194 million in contracts on the Aegis electronic-warfare system...
...came from a secret $5 million fund that Gardner set up with Unisys money and devoted to bribery and illegal campaign contributions, as well as his personal use. He allegedly replenished the fund by charging the military for consulting work that was never performed -- which would mean that the Pentagon unknowingly supplied the money to corrupt its own officials...
Cheney's principal drawback is his health. He had his first heart attack during his initial congressional campaign, and two more followed before he underwent bypass surgery last August. Cheney -- who said last week that he got his cardiologist's O.K. to take the Pentagon job -- generally shrugs off questions about his condition. "Some people are short, fat and ugly," he told the Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune last year. "I happen to have coronary- artery disease...
...other shortcoming is a lack of experience: though he spent five years on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, he has never been a member of the Armed Services panel, has never performed military service or worked at the Pentagon. But in the wake of the Tower tempest, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle anticipate a quiet and speedy Senate review. "This time it will be a confirmation," said Senate minority leader Robert Dole, "not an execution...
...enemy agent in the Pentagon sends a computer virus through the World- Wide Military Command and Control System, which U.S. commanders would rely on in wartime for information and coordination. The virus sits undetected. When hostilities begin, the agent sends a message that triggers the virus, erasing everything in the system...