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Meanwhile, lawyers for Amos Massa and Thomas O'Malley, two of Williams' convicted co-defendants and former Teamsters' pension fund trustees, submitted an affidavit from former FBI Agent H. Edward Tickel, a 14-year bureau veteran and surreptitious-entry expert, to support their claim that some of the evidence in the conspiracy case was obtained illegally. Tickel, 42, alleges that he made three "black bag" break-ins into the Chicago offices of Co-Defendant Allen Dorfman in late 1978 or early 1979, before the FBI had obtained court approval to conduct telephone tapping and bugging...
Dorfman, a millionaire insurance executive and longtime Teamsters associate, was gunned down in a gang-land-style slaying Jan. 20. Tickel also maintains that he entered Williams' hotel suite at the Chicago Sheraton-O'Hare in late 1979 without court approval, to check out likely spots for hidden cameras and microphones. Tickel says that he was under the false impression that all of these entries were properly authorized. The FBI fired Tickel in 1982 after he was indicted for a range of crimes, including trafficking in stolen jewelry and tax evasion, charges for which he was convicted last...
...talent for installing electronic bugs during court-approved break-ins made Special Agent H. Edward Tickel the FBI'S top surreptitious entry expert. The 14-year veteran planted eavesdropping devices in the bureau's most famous cases, including the "Brilab" sting operation that led to the 1981 conspiracy conviction of Carlos Marcello, the reputed king of organized crime in New Orleans. But last week Tickel, 42, was fired by the FBI after being indicted by federal grand juries in Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., for a variety of crimes that took place between 1977 and 1980. Tickel pleaded...
...Though Tickel has been under investigation since 1977, he was assigned to sensitive and classified bureau cases until his transfer last summer to the FBI's training school in Quantico, Va., as an instructor. FBI officials refuse to discuss the case or the seemingly belated reassignment of Tickel. Says one: "The director fired him. That...
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