Word: probe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measure of Mohr's influence is the impressive attendance at the all-night poker parties that he gives at the Blue Ridge Club in the Shenandoah Valley near Harper's Ferry, W. Va. In the course of a separate civil suit unrelated to the probe of the Oswald note, Mohr last summer was forced to divulge a list of 39 people who attended some of the games last Nov. 29-30, April 4-5 and June 13-14. The roster included eleven former FBI officials and at least a dozen present officials, including Adams, Callahan, Dunphy and Jenkins...
Schweiker and Hart are considering holding public hearings on the FBI and Oswald. For the time being, the Senators intend to conduct their probe privately. But in the unlikely event that the subcommittee turns up solid evidence that discredits the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone, the two Senators will propose that Congress reopen the entire investigation into the assassination of John Kennedy...
...began challenging Cox's authority when the press printed unfounded stories that Cox was pursuing the possible misuse of public funds on Nixon's San Clemente estate. Richardson warned Cox that this might be beyond the special prosecutor's jurisdiction. Cox conceded only that no such probe was under way. But a week later, according to the report, Richardson asked that the Justice Department be allowed to "screen" any avenue of Cox's investigation to decide whether it was proper. Cox refused. Later, Richardson tried to dissuade Cox from interviewing Secret Service agents about the handling...
...eight of whom have pleaded guilty to theft or related charges. Bunge still faces possible civil suits from the Government, its customers and transportation companies. Meantime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Agriculture, several congressional committees and the General Accounting Office continue to probe into the scandal. Their investigations are expected to lead to more corporate indictments...
...center will use the funds to try to develop a portable electro-cardiogram analyzer, a probe which measures the blood flow rate in tissue, and two larger instruments to analyze respiratory and dizziness data...