Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downtown Salt Lake City. This time, however, the victim survived -- and eventually became the prime suspect in the two murders. Authorities believed Mark Hofmann, a dealer in rare documents, many on early Mormon history, had been injured while setting a bomb in his own car, possibly to direct suspicion away from himself. Last week the 15-month investigation against Hofmann came to a close when he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder in the bombings and to two counts of theft by deception for selling forged or nonexistent documents. The plea bargain allowed Hofmann, 32, to avoid...
...West Germans' captors lost no time making their demands known. Within 24 hours of Cordes' disappearance, officials in Bonn received word that his kidnapers were indeed demanding a hostage-for-prisoner swap. Suspicion immediately centered on the radical Shi'ite organization Hizballah (Party of God), to which Hamadei is thought to be linked. A West German radio station, quoting an unnamed Christian source in Beirut, said the abductions were planned by Hamadei's brother Abdul, who is thought to be a Hizballah security officer...
...became entangled with the maneuvers of private arms dealers. At best, President Reagan and some of his aides, prominently including Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, showed atrocious judgment by plunging into a devious policy without professional diplomatic guidance. At worst, the White House has laid itself open to the nasty suspicion that in the hope of freeing American hostages, it was lured into an operation designed by arms merchants whose motives were mixed at best...
...suspicion, of course, is that some of the money went to the contras. A Senate Intelligence Committee report that leaked last week charges that it was Ghorbanifar who first suggested to a CIA contact in March 1986 that money paid by Iran be funneled to the Nicaraguan rebels. Ghorbanifar furiously denies that he had anything to do with money for the contras -- and in fact it is hard to see how he could have gained anything from the diversion. The Senate committee report, he charges, reflects "lying under oath" by "some U.S. officials in trouble (who) were trying to deflect...
...profits of the arms-for-hostages deal may have ended up financing pro-contra political advertisements and perhaps even the campaigns of pro-contra congressional candidates. That charge is being made publicly by Democrats who have little evidence and obvious axes to grind, but it is a suspicion that is being voiced within the Executive Branch as well. According to one Government source, the Iranian arms profits were diverted into a political slush fund. According to another source close to the FBI, the bureau is "looking into the possibility of a connection" between money that was supposed to have gone...