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...Auto Parts Inc. Then, standing on a box inside the two-room trailer, Gold stripped away a section of ceiling insulation and tenderly removed a tiny microphone and a transmitter slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes. The bugging device, Gold explained, had been eavesdropping on the Mafia inner sanctum for six months, dutifully recording what his aides described as "a crime story bigger than Appalachin and the Valachi papers combined...
...found the lock taped open again. He called police, and a three-man squad found two more taped locks-as well as a jimmied door leading into the shadowy offices of the Democratic National Committee on the sixth floor. Just outside Chairman Larry O'Brien's inner sanctum, they flushed five men wearing fingerprint-concealing surgical gloves and laden with a James Bondian assortment of cameras, tools, intricate electronic bugging gear and $6,500 in crisp, new bills, most of which were serially numbered...
...Swiss Sanctum. Irving was willing to accept a prison term for fraud and perjury, and give his account of the entire scheme. The prosecutors were amenable to that, since if Irving took the Fifth Amendment, it might be difficult to track down the other conspirators. Morvillo and Tigue immediately flew to Zurich, where they tried to induce the Swiss to reduce their charges against Edith. They received a cool reception. For weeks Zurich Prosecutor Peter Veleff had been horrified by the publicity surrounding the case and by the lack of cooperation from U.S. legal authorities. The spectacle of Clifford...
...search for a woman to serve on the Supreme Court has thus far proved futile, so President Nixon has long been frustrated in finding a woman to work in top Government economic councils. Last week his talent search produced results. To occupy one of the three inner-sanctum seats on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Nixon named Dr. Marina von Neumann Whitman, 36, an economist at the University of Pittsburgh...
...being involved in litigation. There may be a partly justified paranoia about business enemies-and the press, for that matter-intruding upon his sanctum. Last year a group of men, including Robert Maheu's son Peter, were evicted by security guards from the Britannia Beach Hotel, where they were allegedly trying to bug Hughes' suite from the one below...