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Poker Games. A witness at the House Committee probe stirred the original tempest. Martin Kaiser, a Maryland electronics manufacturer, told the committee that he shipped bugging devices to the FBI through the U.S. Recording Company, which since 1938 has supplied the FBI with electronic surveillance equipment. Owned by Joseph Tait, the firm operated as a "cut-out," or front, for the FBI'S purchase of eavesdropping equipment; the idea was to prevent targets of wiretapping-such as gangsters or spies-from learning the bureau's capabilities simply by examining government purchasing records. Kaiser said he discovered that Tait...
...House Committee-and soon the Internal Revenue Service-focused on the role of John P. Mohr, an assistant director of the bureau, who retired in 1972. Mohr headed the office at the FBI that bought the equipment. He also had close ties to Tait, who was a regular at the poker games organized by Mohr at the exclusive Blue Ridge Club in West Virginia's Shenandoah Mountains; but last November the club and some of its records were destroyed in a fire whose origin is still undetermined...
...Some FBI officials received kickbacks on the business bestowed by the FBI upon Tait...
...Both Tait and Mohr insist that there is nothing improper in their relationship. Their associates add that both "are cooperating fully" in the second investigation. However, Tail's firm will no longer function as an FBI "cutout" until the investigation is completed. Justice Department officials are now hoping that the new investigation may prompt Kelley to take a long step toward completing the housecleaning that began after J. Edgar Hoover's death...
Bertrand Russell insisted on living in the best of all possible worlds and responded to imperfection as if it were a personal insult to his intelligence. That stubbornness made him the pain in the neck par excellence of modern times. Or perhaps, as Tait speculates, it made him a sort of saint - "God's gad fly, sent to challenge the smugness of the churches with a righteousness greater than their...