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...then on Thursday morning on May 27, 1976, Bolles received a phone call from a tipster who claimed to have information about a fraudulent land deal. The deal supposedly involved very heavy people in Arizona politics--Sen. Barry Goldwater, Rep. Sam Steiger, and state GOP chairman Harry Rosenzweig. Bolles was skeptical--it just sounded wrong, and he really didn't intend to do the story himself. Nevertheless, he made a deal to meet the man, next Tuesday, after the Memorial weekend, at the Clarendon House hotel...
...tipster wasn't at the Clarendon House, but he did receive a phone call. Bolles told the caller to go to the state capitol and went back to get in his car. He backed up a few feet, then turned his wheels. An explosion blew out the windshield, blew a two-foot hole under the driver's seat. Doctors amputated one leg, an arm, another leg, to save his life. He developed pneumonia. Finally, on June 13, he died. Curiosity killed Don Bolles...
...Keefe brought Medlin to Manhattan, where the tipster soon had CBS News executives hoping that he would lead them to the scoop of the year. He threatened network employees with violence if he did not get his way, and emphasized his seriousness of purpose with a demonstration of karate-style kicks. "He's the most terrifying guy I've ever seen," said CBS News President Richard Salant...
...California returned a secret indictment in the theft. It reportedly cited only one defendant, Donald Woolbright, who is still at large. But in the process of investigating the theft, local police got into the act, and eventually the Los Angeles Times got a garbled version of Jennifer from a tipster. On Feb. 8 of this year the newspaper ran a story about a CIA-Hughes contract to raise a Soviet submarine supposedly sunk in the Atlantic. The CIA waited with bated breath to see if the rest of the press would pick it up or, worse, if the Soviets would...
...public shock at the series spread, Lugar defensively pointed out the difference between an anonymous tipster and a grand-jury witness. He said citizens had sometimes brought him charges similar to those running in the Star. "When I've asked them to testify under oath before the Marion County grand jury," he complained, "many disappear." But Lugar's problem did not. Questions about police corruption began popping up at speeches given well outside Indianapolis, and Lugar decided to deal with the issue at home. He formed a seven-man committee to study the police department, began interviewing some...