Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poker Games. A witness at the House Committee probe stirred the original tempest. Martin Kaiser, a Maryland electronics manufacturer, told the committee that he shipped bugging devices to the FBI through the U.S. Recording Company, which since 1938 has supplied the FBI with electronic surveillance equipment. Owned by Joseph Tait, the firm operated as a "cut-out," or front, for the FBI'S purchase of eavesdropping equipment; the idea was to prevent targets of wiretapping-such as gangsters or spies-from learning the bureau's capabilities simply by examining government purchasing records. Kaiser said he discovered that Tait...
Last fall, on the orders of FBI Director Clarence Kelley, the bureau began a further inquiry into Mohr's activities. TIME has learned that the probe was quickly suffocated by the impenetrable blanket of secrecy under which Mohr operated...
Swift Action. Levi's new probe will be completely independent of the Mohr clique. TIME has also learned that if any evidence is uncovered to show that the Mohr clique slanted the first report, Director Kelley is expected to take swift action against the group. In addition, sources have revealed that the probe has widened into other areas of possible wrongdoing. Among the charges being investigated...
...death in 1945. Yet in the 1960s the U.S. spent about $34.5 billion on space programs, culminating in the 1969 Apollo moon landing. In the 1970s the country will spend almost the same amount ($34.1 billion), overwhelming proof that Goddard's dream still has considerable thrust. Two Viking probes are en route to Mars, a Venus probe is scheduled for 1978, and a reusable space shuttle will go aloft the following year...
...current probe, Prosecutor Woodcock got court permission to exhume five of the bodies. Then he sent tissue samples off to different specialists, some of whom used detection techniques so subtle they can identify a substance weighing only a trillionth of a gram...