Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although he was a member of a Senate subcommittee that was to monitor CIA activities, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington advised the agency in 1973 on how to handle another Senate subcommittee's probe of CIA ties in Chile with ITT Corp. Jackson retorted that he was asked only for procedural advice...
...well. Other tips followed, including a letter from nine unidentified police officers, disclosing that patrolmen were being forced to pay kickbacks to their commanders for off-duty work and that a cops' slush fund for social affairs and special police equipment had mysteriously disappeared. A department probe was launched, and when it began unearthing evidence of corruption, the grand jury took over. What it was investigating was a story of vice cops soliciting bribes and police shaking down people for money, merchandise and prostitutes' services. Under Simon Leis Jr., 41, Hamilton County prosecutor and a personal friend...
...probe involved police tolerance of flagrant offenses in Cincinnati's taverns. One of them was the Clock Bar, a joint that offered free meals and booze to cops who overlooked the flourishing trade in hard drugs carried on there (one report said 646 bags of heroin were seized there in an eight-month period last year). Yet the Clock kept ticking; it did not close until a plainclothesman was shot to death near by last summer...
After Carey lowered the boom on him, Nadjari reacted with characteristic toughness. He refused to resign. Instead, he called a press conference and strongly suggested that Carey was trying to protect high-level Democratic cronies. These Democrats, Nadjari said, were the targets of a nearly completed probe into "the hard core" of corruption in the upper reaches of the justice system. Indictments in the case, he added, could be delivered this month. Said he: "The closer I get to the hard core-and I tell you that I am close, closer than I have ever been-the greater the abuse...
What flushed Mrs. Exner into public view was the Senate Intelligence Committee. As part of its CIA probe, the committee investigated Roselli's and Giancana's other federal connection: their contract with the CIA to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro...