Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level White House activities, and he is the only top official who has expressed willingness to stand up and accuse other insiders -including the President. In addition, he claims credit for having volunteered early cooperation with prosecutors and causing the disclosure of such key incidents as the raid on the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist and the destruction of documents by FBI Chief L. Patrick Gray...
Their acquittal may well have resulted from Federal Judge Clarkson Fisher's instructions to the jury about the perils of entrapment by the Government. A paid FBI informer had been extremely active in the 1971 raid, supplying tools, strategy and training. Though the Supreme Court recently took a more tolerant view of government agent activity, the judge told the jury that it could acquit if it found "overreaching Government participation" that was "offensive to the basic standards of decency and shocking to the universal sense of justice." The jury deliberated over four days and finally returned not-guilty...
...discover two private detectives digging through his belongings. At his call, sheriff's deputies arrested the pair, and they languished in jail for days before disclosing that they were working for a Miami detective agency. Three years later, some embarrassed CIA officials admitted that they had staged the raid as a favor to their gangland spook Giancana...
...wife was crying and begging them not to kill me," says Giglotto, a boilermaker who worked on construction projects until he left his job after the raid. The man with the pistol repeatedly asked him, "Where's it at?" and rattled off a series of names that Giglotto did not recognize. Then someone ran up and said, "Hey, we made a mistake!" As quickly as they had entered, the agents prepared to leave. When Giglotto asked for an explanation, one of them replied: "Shut your mouth...
...Federal Government. Evelyn Giglotto says that she can no longer sleep in the bedroom where she thought her husband was going to be murdered. Virginia Askew, according to her husband, has a history of "psychological problems." She has been in a local hospital's mental ward since the raid took place...