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...just-appointed director, William D. Ruckelshaus, now admits, the FBI failed in that mission; it did, however, set up a number of wiretaps without any court authorization. One of them was on the home phone of Morton Halperin, then a consultant for the National Security Council, and on that tap, the FBI heard some conversations by Ellsberg. Fully a year ago. Judge Byrne had demanded an account of all Government eavesdropping on Ellsberg, but Ruckelshaus disclosed the tap on Halperin only last week-and added the incredible news that all the tapes and logs of the overheard conversations had mysteriously...
...President at first asked that the FBI tap the telephones of several reporters, including two at the New York Times, and of at least four of his own White House aides. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover resisted, on the grounds that the practice would be indefensible if discovered. Hoover would order the tapping, he said, only if Attorney General John Mitchell gave him written authorization. Mitchell did. Recalls one Government official: "It was essentially a fishing expedition." Though little was learned from the taps, they resulted in one official's being shifted from a sensitive Pentagon post and the transfer...
Sachs said that the new fund should tap resources currently unavailable to Radcliffe because "many women hesitate to contribute to Radcliffe during the unclear non-merger merger phase...
...Teamsters Union, which has become Nixon's closest political ally in organized labor. In a decision protested by department officials, Petersen ruled that there was "insufficient" cause to continue the wiretaps. His edict stopped the eavesdropping after FBI agents discovered that Los Angeles gangsters seeking to tap the union welfare fund had met in Palm Springs on February 8 with Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons...
...transporting and insuring goods. They hunt up bank loans when needed. A small army of trading-house representatives roams the world sending back a steady stream of information on foreign politics, weather, and anything else that might affect an export decision. The trading houses also organize huge consortiums to tap natural resources anywhere. Mitsui, for instance, is a major partner in a group that is developing copper deposits in the African nation of Zaire...