Word: probe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rocky's Probe: Bringing the CIA to Heel...
...detail and comprehensiveness surprised many Administration opponents, especially congressional Democrats, who had feared a whitewash. Still they are unlikely to be satisfied that the entire record has been laid bare until after the Senate committee finishes investigating the CIA later this year. The chairman of the Senate probe, Democrat Frank Church of Idaho, declared that the Rockefeller commission report "may represent just the tip of the iceberg." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called the report "good but not complete." In particular, the Democrats were disappointed that Ford had not released 85 pages of the original report that dealt with charges...
SENATE INQUIRY. That doubtless will be one of the Church committee's recommendations when it completes its investigation of the CIA at the end of the year. Another probe of the agency was to begin in the House last week but broke down because of a prolonged controversy over the admission by the investigating committee's chairman, Lucien Nedzi, that he had been briefed by the CIA in 1973 about its involvement in assassination plans and domestic espionage. Because of the seeming conflict of interest-the committee might have to investigate Nedzi's failure...
...likely to stop there. Ever since the Watergate prosecutors began investigating illegal contributions by more than a dozen U.S. companies (including Northrop) to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign and found clues that some of the same companies had also made suspiciously large, undisclosed payments overseas, a probe of multinationals' operations has been widening. The SEC has already accused Phillips Petroleum, Ashland Oil and General Refractories of making overseas payments not properly accounted for on their books. Senator Church indicated that his subcommittee will call chiefs of other companies besides Northrop to testify. One likely target: Lockheed...
...eventual FTC ruling on drug-price ads may presage a probe into the agreements by medical and bar associations that set fees charged by doctors and lawyers. Engman, who has vigorously pushed antitrust actions in his two years at the FTC, has talked before about "conspiracies of silence" concerning prices in other professions. Last week he said that the fact that druggists' antiadvertising agreements resemble understandings among other groups does not excuse the pharmacists but "may be a reason to take a hard look at doctors and lawyers...