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...finally got a look at the Daley-Dennis reports in 1978, after an anonymous tipster informed the agency that Fitzsimmons and the Pressers had been seen with the IRS agents. The tipster also hinted that the conversations might have had something to do with Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 and is presumed to have been murdered. The FBI then began an investigation, about six years too late. By then the statute of limitations had expired, so nobody mentioned in the Daley-Dennis reports could be prosecuted anyway...
...everyone in the place. Burnett did not deny that she dined at the restaurant that night, spoke to Kissinger and had "two, maybe three" glasses of wine. But, she testified, "They portrayed me as drunk." The Enquirer maintained that its information came from a normally reliable source (then freelance tipster, now Enquirer Columnist R. Couri Hay), that staffers had made efforts to verify the tip, and that a retraction ("These events did not occur") was published as soon as the tabloid learned it was wrong. Under California law a retraction severely limits damages against a newspaper involved in a libel...
...hole in one "for a flamboyant Wall Street tipster...
...British government identified H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, a diplomat-turned-journalist and fellow spy, as the "third man," who had tipped the two that they were about to be caught. Philby had by then followed Burgess and Maclean to Moscow. But Boyle claims that it was Blunt who was the tipster, phoning Burgess on May 25, 1951, a Friday, to warn him that British authorities would begin interrogating Maclean the following Monday...
...evening news and offered $1,000 for information leading to the man's arrest. Radio stations followed up with 30-second spots and the Tulsa Tribune ran a daily story on the crime throughout the week. The reward and the publicity worked: within 24 hours an anonymous tipster helped police identify the culprit...