Word: wiretap
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...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...
...second controversy centered on wiretaps placed on 17 officials and newsmen from May 1969 to February 1971, a period when Nixon was concerned that leaks might compromise military operations and sensitive negotiations. "The wiretapping was linked by some to Watergate to prove that the Nixon Administration had a pervasive inclination to unlawful behavior," writes Kissinger. "On this issue hypocrisy is rampant. Wiretaps may be unpalatable, but they are as ubiquitous as the telephone and almost as old. Wiretapping by past Presidents of both political parties seems to have been more widespread, with fewer safeguards and looser standards, than under Nixon...
...intriguing document did not touch upon U.S. -Iran relations at all. Titled Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services, the 47-page CIA study, issued in March 1979, offered tidbits about Israeli efforts to blackmail and wiretap U.S. Government employees. For example, Shin Beth, the Israeli counterespionage branch allegedly rigged a fake abortion case against a clerk at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador...