Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until Kim's defection, the FBI probe of the scandal was virtually stalled. Businessman Tongsun Park, who entertained lavishly in Washington and doled out KCIA bribe money to a score of Congressmen, had fled the country to avoid being called before a federal grand jury. Comely Suzi Thomson, who regularly gave intimate parties at which Kim and other KCIA agents cemented relationships with influential Americans, had been a balky witness...
...word of Kim's defection leaked out, five leaders of the House called-for the first time-for a congressional probe of the scandal. Also, in a letter to President Ford, ranking members of the slow-moving House ethics committee asked that the Justice Department share its information with them...
...proud of a 1940 memo telling how U.S. Communist leaders were urging party members not to vote for Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie since Roosevelt's re-election would make it easier to "keep Hoover's hands tied." He also resisted pressure-from undisclosed sources-to conduct a probe of Willkie because "the FBI would be accused of conducting a political investigation...
...reason that picture has been developing so slowly is that influential Congressmen have been trying to thwart investigations of Korean activity by the departments of Justice and Agriculture -both of which depend upon Congress for appropriations. Should a Watergate-style Special Prosecutor be assigned to probe the Korean quagmire, as some observers suggest? So far, there has been little sign of congressional zeal for self-policing. Some months ago, a witness in the FBI investigation tried to tell a House Ethics Committee member what he knew about the Korean case. The Congressman refused to listen. His excuse: whatever he heard...
McFall's indiscretion has knocked him out of any chance for the majority leader's job. Meantime, the probe of Korean influence continues. Tongsun Park himself left the country when the stories about his largesse began to break (TIME, Nov. 8); Justice officials, who need his testimony to frame indictments, worry that he may never return...