Word: wiretapping
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Much of the wiretap information did not get beyond the FBI's New York office, where top officials showed little enthusiasm for pursuing leads on Democratic corruption at a time when a Democratic Administration held power in Washington. Lee Laster, who was in charge of the office, and Kenneth Walton, his deputy, provoked a furor among their subordinates by insisting that Orlando was too tainted to be used as an informant and, further, that Orlando should be prosecuted...
...indicative of the growing sensitivity to the secret taping of phone calls both inside and outside government. The practice is "an offense against good reporting, against good business and particularly against good government," declares Times Columnist William Safire, who broke the story and who is still smarting from a wiretap of his own calls ordered by the Nixon Administration in 1969. Any surreptitious use of tape recorders is "flat wrong," says St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times Editor Eugene Patterson. "Bugging is bugging, no matter what you call it." Many major press organizations, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times...
...less than two hours after the President was killed, saying that Oswald was capable of killing Kennedy. The FBI's central office also allegedly sent a teletype that a "militant revolutionary group" might try to kill Kennedy on November 22. The Miami police department sent them information, obtained by wiretap, that white racists were planning to kill Kennedy with a rifle. More bitter critics say that the reason Oswald was not taken into custody was that J. Edgar Hoover was upset with Robert Kennedy, who was in Hoover's territory with his organized-crime crusade...
...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...