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...fact that Donovan had been cited in the Masselli wiretaps apparently did not even reach the FBI's Washington headquarters promptly. When Edwin Meese, a top Reagan transition adviser, asked FBI Director William Webster in December 1980 whether the FBI had any information linking Donovan to organized crime, Webster responded, "I know of nothing to hold up the nomination at this time." The director wrote a memo saying that the FBI's 59 field offices had run checks on Donovan with no negative findings. In fact, no such national FBI survey had been made...
...This information was relayed to FBI headquarters on Jan. 8 and Jan. 10,1981. So was one comment about Donovan from the Masselli wiretaps. On Jan. 11, all this was passed on to Fred Fielding, a Meese aide who is now White House counsel. But neither Meese, Fielding nor Webster told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee about the derogatory information before Donovan's confirmation hearings began on Jan. 12. It was only after that hearing had been concluded that the FBI finally advised the Senators about allegations that Donovan had been linked with mobsters. This caused...
...Ogorodnikova, 34, a Russian emigre and suspected spy for the Soviet KGB. Last week Miller, Ogorodnikova and her husband Nikolai, 51, were arrested. Miller was the first FBI agent ever charged with espionage, and his case shocked an agency that had prided itself on its professionalism. FBI Director William Webster called it "an aberration on the proud record of patriotic and dedicated service of thousands of agents throughout our history...
...Octoberfest attracted a wide variety of festivalgoers. Katherine L. Webster '87 brought her visiting parents to the festival "to show them what Harvard undergraduates do in their spare time," although she noted that a large part of the crowd consisted of Cambridge residents...
Sleaze. Its derivation to this day remains uncertain, but the word is still a good one. According to Webster's dictionary, it is something that "wants firmness or texture of substance; flimsy." Mr. Webster, however, was obviously not a politician. "Sleaze" may mean "flimsy." but it also connotes crime: "illegal sleaze." for example, was used to describe a senator using government funds to buy his wife a trash compactor...