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Federal investigators insist that all of this was under way before De Lorean entered the picture. By sheer coincidence, they say, the C.I. knew De Lorean. According to a confidential federal memo, De Lorean, not realizing that his friend might be talking to the Government, approached the C.I. in July. De Lorean said he needed money to save his car company from bankruptcy, and offered to help finance a drug-smuggling deal if it would net him at least $50 million. James Walsh, an assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the task force, approved a plan to go along with...
...first few prosecutions [for violating draft registration laws] are unsuccessful, compliance with the registration requirement is liable to worsen significantly. Consequently it is imperative that the initial prosecutions be successful." --An Internal Justice Department memo dated March...
...under the surface, things weren't so smooth. A memo addressed in March to a lower-level bureaucrat in the Selective Service System from an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division raised some concerns over the planned method of enforcement. At that point, Selective Service had not yet cross-checked the hundreds of thousands of registration cards with the hundreds of thousands of social security files to see which males born since 1960 had not filled out their registration forms...
David J. Kline, the author of the memo, noted that "with the present universe of hundreds of thousands of non-registrants, the chances that a quiet non-registrant will be prosecuted is probably about the same as the chances that he will be struck by lightning." He predicted elsewhere that "the present passive identification program is liable to result in adverse judicial decisions based on defendant claims of selective prosecution...
...Mark D. Rosenbaum, a lawyer working on the defense, says that damaging evidence against the government has been released. He cites a private Justice Department memo written in March, which says "the chances that a quiet non-registrant will be prosecuted are about the same as the chances he will be struck by lighting...