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Slam and Jam
The Atlantic Monthly reports on the nation's air-traffic-control system. "For all the reports of equipment failures and "close calls" and controller burnout, the nation's air-traffic control system is in fact far less precarious, in terms of safety, than people imagine it to be. The real threat to the system's integrity has as yet received little attention.... Renegade slowdowns deliver a clear threat within the agency, yet a threat so technical that it remains invisible to the outside world." The story finds that "many of the public concerns about air-traffic control -- that the equipment is dangerously old, that safety is compromised, that poorly monitored aircraft threaten to collide in midair -- are largely unwarranted."
Tags: Newark International Airport; LaGuardia; JFK; aviation; Lufthansa; United Airlines; Continental; hubs; FAA; unions
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Airport Security
CBS reporters, led by a former Federal Aviation Administration security team employee, test eight major airports -- JFK, LaGuardia, Baltimore, Reagan National, Atlanta, St. Louis, Ft. Lauderdale and Los Angeles -- for security flaws. They enter through checkpoints with lead-lined film bags where weapons could be hidden invisible to the X-ray machines. The result is the same both six months after Sept. 11 and a year after Sept. 11: In 70 percent of the cases the security personnel fails to open the lead-lined bags.
Tags: terrorism; safety; bombs; 9/11; whistleblowing; airlines; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Revelation 1963
New Times tells "the previously unknown story of George Joannides, the chief of CIA psychological welfare operations in Miami in 1963, whose student agents surveilled and collected intelligence on Lee Harvey Oswald three months before the assassination of President Kennedy..." The article finds a relationship between Oswald and the CIA's psychological warfare operations aimed at overthrowing the Cuban government. The investigation documents the covert operation involving an anti-Castro student group and its connection with Oswald.
Tags: CIA; JFK Assassination Records Review Board; Revolutionary Student Directorate; University of Miami; Cuban Missile Crisis; Bay of Pigs; Cuban exiles; politics
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Near-Miss Communications
WABC-TV Channel 7 Eye Witness News investigated why two foreign 757 jumbo jets nearly collided on the JFK Airport in New York in June of 1998. The investigation revealed that this near-miss and an Avianca jet crash that killed 73 people 10 years ago "resulted from foreign pilots inability to clearly understand English, the international language of aviation."
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Live By the Sword; The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
In Live By the Sword, Gus Russo attacks the question of why JFK was killed. Guiding the reader through the labyrinth of information and intrigue, he explores the assassination in context, explaining the atmosphere of the times as well as the actions that led to JFK's death. Russo says that the Kennedys' relentless pursuit of Castro and Cuba backfired in tragedy in November 1963.
Tags: BOOK; Warren Commission; FOI; Oswald
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No title (id: 13290)
Five nights a week, at least $100 million in crisp new $100 bills is flown from JFK nonstop to Moscow, where it is used to finance the Russian mob's vast and growing international crime syndicate. State and federal officials believe it is part of a multi-billion-dollar money-laundering operation. New York magazine investigates how the Republic National Bank and the United States Federal Reserve prefer to ignore the problem because they a make millions off the currency sales to Russian mobsters. (Jan. 12, 1996)
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America's Top-Secret Spy War
U.S. News & World Report conducts a six month investigation using 10,000 classified records which had been sealed away at the National Archives for nearly 30 years. The records and more than 150 follow-up interviews reveal an aggressive U.S. espionage campaign whose full scope has never before been disclosed.
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No title (id: 10506)
The National Review examines the ease with which people fleeing other countries can easily get into the US by simply asking for political asylum. The article looks at the situation at the JFK airport and looks at how the immigration laws do not provide a solution to the problem. Mar. 15, 1993
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No title (id: 8539)
U.S. News and World Report looks at the Warren Commission and its investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in light of Oliver Stone's movie JFK and renewed calls by Congress to release the files on the investigation; briefly outlines criticisms of the commission with equally brief defenses, Aug. 17, 1992.
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