Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hughes abruptly began backpedaling last week, yet another development in Central America became the focus of suspicion and dispute in Washington. Only two days after the Salvadoran election, Republican Senator Jesse Helms claimed that he had uncovered "a covert plan" under which CIA funds were directly funneled into the campaign of Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte. Said Helms: "The State Department and the CIA bought Mr. Duarte lock, stock and barrel." Yet the fact that the ultraconservative North Carolinian, who openly supported Duarte's rightist adversary Roberto d'Aubuisson, took the lead on the issue...
Despite this success, the committee found that agents often violate the bureau's own guidelines by offering exorbitant bribes and by starting investigations without "reasonable suspicion." Among the committee's recommendations: requiring judicial warrants before scams can be initiated, and a strict code of Behavior for undercover operations. Said the report: "There are some forms of conduct which should never be permitted in a democratic society. There is a point at which the end, no matter how important, will not support such conduct...
...whether deals are pursued because of the payoff, not because they are in the client's best interest. Rohatyn is one who thinks that payments have got out of hand. Says he: "The level of fees has reached a point that is difficult to justify and invites the suspicion that there is too much incentive to do a deal. Fees are sometimes ten times as large when a deal closes as when it doesn't, so you'd almost have to be a saint not to be affected by the numbers involved...
...evidence remains circumstantial. Last week Charboneau, whose perusal of business records led him to suspect Cho of using the funds for payoffs, told TIME: "I don't know frankly whether it was used to bribe Korean officials, but the way the money was given to Cho caused suspicion...
William Herzberg '84, though, says he probably had a little too much adventure. He was arrested in Morocco last summer on suspicion of being...