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...setting policy, rather than rating products, CR's purpose? Richard Greenhaus, 65, was a testing engineer for the magazine for 18 years; he left in 1990 because, he says, CR had "changed from an interested consumers' group to a bureaucracy behaving like a branch of government." Greenhaus charges that Consumers Union president Rhoda Karpatkin "is a politically active Democrat" and that CR has changed from conducting disinterested research to promoting a consciously liberal agenda. Says Karpatkin, citing a 1986 letter from Ronald Reagan praising Consumers Union's "competence and impartiality": "I do not engage in partisan politics...
Amid the debates about funding and organization, the CIA continues to expand its NOC program. Intelligence officials say several hundred NOCs are now in the field, and the number is growing. Senior officials from the agency's National Collections Branch have been quietly approaching businesses doing overseas work to ask if they will provide covers for CIA case officers. Energy companies, import-export firms, multinational concerns, banks with foreign branches and high-tech corporations are among those being approached. Usually the company president and perhaps another senior officer, such as the general counsel, are the only ones who know...
...return to the business world. But while they are NOC officers, the CIA pays them a government salary. The company pays them a corporate salary-- usually much larger--to keep up the cover, but that money is quietly returned to the company. In fact, the agency's Covert Tax Branch has a secret relationship with the IRS to resolve the two W-2 forms an officer gets each year. The disparity in salaries, however, has already created a retention problem for the CIA. A NOC officer who discovered that his corporate earnings were making him a millionaire on paper recently...
...proceeds of this concert will go to the New York branch of the Red Cross, which runs several local homeless shelters and disaster relief pro grams...
Rent control officials said yesterday that Light tried to trick a board inspector into believing that he and Dr. Daniel S. Harrop lived at 14 Mt. Auburn St., when the residence was in fact used to house the Harvard branch of Sigma Chi, a national fraternity...