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Without knowing it, Needle Nose and Weinberg were, on that day in 1953, spilling their plans into a "bug," i.e., a hidden microphone. On the floor above, a husky cop named Joe Morris tore off his earphones, made for the office of Lawyer Abraham Teitelbaum, counsel and general organizer of the Restaurant Association. The cops glued a 24-hour bodyguard around Teitelbaum; later Labriola and Weinberg were found drugged and strangled in the trunk of an abandoned car-presumably because the mob considered that they were both hot and talky...
...Wrong Bug. As chief investigator of a super-secret intelligence unit of the Chicago police dubbed Scotland Yard, Joe Morris had, since 1952, been painstakingly gathering data on Chicago gangsters and their political friends. His tactic: pick up a hoodlum, e.g., Sam ("Golf Bag") Hunt,* grill him, set him free, tail him. With the help of surveillances, wire taps and bugs, Morris filled five filing cabinets with intelligence on 600 "syndicate" mobsters, 8,000 lesser hoodlums, and a disturbing number of his fellow cops and assorted politicians...
Last year, the Cook County Democratic machine decided to drop Morris' patron and chief protector, Reform Mayor Martin Kennelly, in favor of County Clerk Richard J. Daley (a key Illinois tactician for Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson). During the campaign, Morris was tripped up as he tried to bug the hotel room of a suspect who had powerful connections with the county committee. Word got to Candidate Daley that Scotland Yard was working against him. Observed the Daily News: "Predictions were made . . . that the election of Mayor Daley would mean the disbanding of Scotland Yard...
...widely shared, was perverted into something else by some British Laborites, who deplored the Poznan uprising as a check to what they deemed to be the beneficient evolution of Communism. Laborite Richard H. S. Crossman, who flits in and out of the Bevan camp like an overgrown lightning bug, was upset that anyone outside should support those "desperate men who turned a peaceful demonstration into an armed uprising. We should frankly tell the Poles that armed insurrection is the one thing which could force the Russians to reverse their new-look policy." Fortunately, not everyone in the Labor Party...
...West German Plant Conservation Service at Kiel and the Soviet zone's Central Biological Office together maintain irrigation works that straddle the border, wage joint war against animal epidemics and that old enemy of German agriculture, the potato bug...