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- GRAPEVINE, Page 43Spooky S&L Stories
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- By RICHARD ZOGLIN/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- Was the CIA implicated in the savings and loan debacle? The
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is
- investigating charges of agency involvement in the scandal, will
- soon produce some answers. Nobody has managed to nail down a
- charge, aired in a series of articles in the Houston Post, that
- the CIA used fraudulently obtained S&L money to fund some of its
- covert operations, including support for the now defunct
- Nicaraguan contra rebels. But there is more evidence for a
- second Post allegation: that a Justice Department prosecutor
- investigating a bank failure in 1985 was warned off by FBI
- agents because one of his targets had CIA ties. The House
- committee, which questioned CIA Director William Webster about
- the matter in a closed-door session in late October, is expected
- to announce its findings soon.
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