Word: wiretappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Senate campaign by publicly swearing, on a white-bound Bible, that he was heterosexual. Barkouras took no further action, but a few weeks later Jack Anthony, 28, an heir to an Oklahoma department-store fortune and a student of Barkouras', was arrested at 4 a.m. while changing a wiretap connected to Sternlofs home phone. Soon afterward, traveling in seven cars, 14 FBI agents went to Barkouras' foundation to seize records. At a preliminary hearing an assistant to Patton shouted, "Anthony is the pawn of Barkouras!" The jury found Anthony guilty of wiretapping. At the sentencing, Judge Lee West...
When Avraham Achituv, 54, chief of Shin Bet, learned of the evidence, he allegedly asked Begin for permission to investigate further, using surveillance and wiretap methods. Begin said no. His reason, according to the Star: the police were carrying out a full investigation. Later, the newspaper reported, Achituv learned to his surprise that the police had been told that Shin Bet was in charge...
...With a wiretap, a computer and a little guile