Word: wiretaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...York FBI agents that the Schiavone company was "mobbed up" and claimed that Donovan had been "acquainted" with mobsters on both "a business and social basis." 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...
...York FBI office, Walton admitted barring his agents from talking to Merola's staff. At least one agent was disciplined for giving information to the Bronx investigators anyway. FBI headquarters last week ordered an internal investigation into the way its New York office had handled the Masselli wiretap evidence. Despite the lack of FBI assistance, Bronx Detectives Michael Geary and Lawrence Doherty finally put together the case that the feds had declined to make...
...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...