Word: wiretap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message to the team had been "If we don't win a single game, we're going to get rid of this drug problem." By N.F.L. standards, their problem was moderate. No indictments, but the names of five prominent players came up via a federal wiretap at the trial of a Brazilian cocaine smuggler. At the same time, the Houston Oilers have had two incidences of possession. So in Texas drugs have been added to the holy coordinates of football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi-Tough, barbecue sauce, insurance, computers...
...racketeers consider the Donovan probe a most serious matter. TIME has learned that some of the mobsters involved in the Donovan investigation are also named in a 1980 FBI report on the "Provenzano crime group." The 60-page document was used by the FBI to place a court-sanctioned wiretap on telephones available to Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamster boss and Mafia captain, in California's Lompoc federal prison...
...evidence, contained in FBI wiretaps, indicated that Donovan had attended a social affair with William Masselli, an admitted Mafia family member. Fielding told TIME that the information was not identified as coming from a wiretap, and he thus regarded it as "just another allegation." FBI records, however, show that Fielding was told the evidence came from a "tape recording...
Although the FBI wiretaps on Masselli ended in 1979, voluminous files on them remain in the Justice Department, which supervises the FBI. Whether anyone in the department informed Attorney General William French Smith about the wiretap references to Donovan is not known. In retrospect, it is evident that someone should have done...
...Atlantic and Middle East while fending off what he perceives as challenges to his authority within the Reagan Administration. For Kissinger, it comes on the heels of the publication of his own memoirs about that troubled period, Years of Upheaval, in which he describes his admitted involvement in the wiretap operation as "the part of my public service about which I am most ambivalent...