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Martin Marietta and Grumman officials insist that only a handful of top officials knew of the impending deal before the weekend. They hint that outside financial and legal advisers were the most likely culprits. The SEC probably will begin its probe by examining an options order for the right to buy 25,000 shares of Grumman stock before April 15 at $45 a share. The buyer paid 25 cents a share for the right, or $6,250. In the wake of the deal, the stock soared to nearly $55, meaning the value of the $6,250 stake had soared...
...employees who have access to sensitive information. This demand is hardly original. Virtually every recent intelligence study conducted has pressed the point that the love of money -- not ideology -- drives modern-day espionage. Yet the CIA has made little effort to oversee employee assets. While polygraph tests now probe for signs of financial vulnerability, no effort is made to expose hidden wealth. So far, only top-level employees must disclose their financial , holdings. And the CIA has access to employees' income-tax returns and bank records only immediately upon hiring for a brief period and during each five- year review...
...know is that the Q-RAC used to be called the QRALC: Quality Recreation at Low cost. It's kind of like ZEBCO, the fishing pole maker, you know, the Zero Error Bomb Corporation. The Q-RAC used to make bombs in World War II." Edified, I probe deeper...
...Guaranty is the failed Arkansas thrift once owned by James McDougal, the Clintons' partner in the Whitewater real estate development. Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, acting head of the Resolution Trust Corporation, admitted to the Senate banking committee that he had briefed Nussbaum and other top aides on the probe...
...questions keep coming unsettled. In a letter filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Fiske let it be known that his investigation will also re-examine the conclusion that Foster's death last year was a suicide. He asked the court to keep the reports secret until his probe is completed. But if last week is any indication, the steady drip, drip, drip of Whitewater disclosures is likely to afflict the Clintons for months to come...