Word: shortley
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...picked by Schiavone to head its investigation was Robert Shortley, 60, a onetime FBI agent who retired from the agency in 1955. Shortley is a longtime friend of Edward V. Hickey, director of special support services for the White House and a casual acquaintance of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Shortley's wife Maiselle works at the White House as an aide to Morton Blackwell, a liaison with conservative groups. Anthony Dolan, a Reagan speechwriter, is Shortley's brother-in-law; so is John T. ("Terry") Dolan, director of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which raised more...
Manuel also denies that he was the middleman between the White House and Schiavone in hiring the detectives. Like Shortley, he is a close friend of Hickey's and was once a client of Meese's law firm in California. Indeed, Meese and Hickey tried to employ Manuel as a White House consultant not long after Reagan's Inauguration last year. Hickey put through a formal request to hire Manuel and gave the sleuth a temporary White House pass that was valid until April 1981. Hickey, whose duties include overseeing Air Force One and Camp David, says...