FBI Ads Tried to Lure Spy Contact in Mexico Meeting
The FBI placed three classified newspaper advertisements last summer in the Los Angeles Times to meet an anonymous letter-writer calling themselves RUS. The ads proposed meetings in San Francisco or Ensenada, with offers of travel funds, and referenced a covert 20 plus year spy network supplying top secret Navy materials to the Soviet Union, linking to Jerry A. Whitworth who denies involvement.
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Washington
FBI
United States
San Francisco
Mexico
Los Angeles Times
Rus
Bureau
Jerry A. Whitworth
Navy
Soviet Union
Whitworth
Sacramento
Calif
USA
Ensenada
Silicon Valley
White House pushes tighter ceiling on spending
White House officials say they may veto fall spending bills to force Congress to follow the Senate budget ceiling rather than the higher House-Senate compromise. Larry Speakes warned reporters the president will veto if Congress does not toe the line, as Reagan plans a fall offensive to frame budget and tax reform battles.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
White House
Congress
House
Senate
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Donald Regan
Reagan
Militant tied to plot to kill federal witness in Idaho
Eldon Bud Cutler 59, security chief for Aryan Nations, was charged with arranging the death of Thomas Martinez, a federal witness in a probe into Aryan Nations. FBI declined to confirm Martinez’s status, stating no evidence of his death. Martinez, 29, testified in the investigation while Cutler oversaw security at the Aryan Nations compound in northern Idaho.
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Boise, Idaho
FBI
Aryan Nations Security
Eldon “Bud” Cutler
Thomas Martinez
William Fallon
Martinez
Cutler
Aryan Nations
Idaho
West
U.S
Maurice Ellsworth
Tax protest group leader faces murder-for-hire indictment
Richard F. Arnett, 41, of Clarksville, former leader of the Patriot Network, is charged in a six-count indictment with a murder-for-hire attempt against an Internal Revenue Service agent Bart Slattery. Arnett denies the claim and says he sought to expose a fellow protester as an IRS stooge. He has been held without bond since July 13. The Patriot Network is based in Augusta, Georgia and argues U.S. currency lacks gold or silver backing.
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Nashville, Tenn
Internal Revenue Service
Richard F. Arnett
Clarksville
IRS
Bart Slattery
Arnett
Patriot Network
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