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...last week's meeting, Tyler argued that the Justice Department investigation was the best way to forestall charges that the FBI was covering up the case. Some agents in his audience agreed, but others did not. One official later cited the probe as evidence that "Kelley doesn't have his hand on the throttle any more-the FBI is just floundering." Still, a day later, the Justice Department made a further attempt to mollify the FBI agents. Officials restored the five agents to duty but did not go so far as to call off the grand jury investigation...
...civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push and probe the main characters in the story. Help them frame their answers. Ask leading questions like 'Do you ever go into the corner...
...other hand, is struggling just to keep the remnants of its superb cadre of engineers and technicians together until public opinion will again support bold new programs-not an immediate prospect. In fact, Congress appears on the verge of killing off another promising NASA project, an unmanned probe of the Venus atmosphere...
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...