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...Moscow Station, investigative reporter Ronald Kessler depicts an incredible lack of security at the U.S. embassy. Seductive KGB women used their embassy jobs to lure lonely Marines into espionage. But, says Kessler, the Navy bungled its probe, only one Marine was convicted of spying, and embarrassed U.S. agencies tried to play down the damage. In fact, he claims, there is solid evidence that Soviet agents had been admitted to the inner code rooms and stole some of America's most sensitive secrets...
...ought to recognize that the Soviet Union remains a very heavily armed power with interests that are adverse to the U.S. I don't think it has departed from what has been Soviet policy for a long, long time, and that is to test the Alliance, to probe, to look for weaknesses...
...This affair will not be covered up." So promised Pierre Beregovoy, the French Finance Minister, as he announced a criminal probe last week into an insider-trading scandal that is causing major embarrassment to Francois Mitterrand's government. The suspected scheme was uncovered when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission noticed heavy trading in Triangle Industries, a U.S. holding company, in the days prior to the Nov. 21 announcement of the company's takeover by Pechiney S.A., a French metals conglomerate. Estimated profits by insiders who bought early: $10 million...
Senate leader Bulger will face renewed criticism in coming months over his role in a controversial Boston real estate deal. Last week, Massachusetts Attorney General James Shannon called upon the U.S. Justice Department to review the federal probe of the 75 State Street construction project, to which the South Boston Democrat is linked...
Also that month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's office closed, without any major indictments, a wide-ranging 2 1/2-year investigation into Boston real estate that included the State Street project. But federal investigators never questioned Bulger. Shannon refused to launch a state-wide probe, but instead requested that U.S. Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh review the case...