November 17 -"I am not a crook." - Richard Nixon
So when Haldeman, at Nixon's behest, had told Helms, "It's likely to blow the whole Bay of Pigs" he had really been - he came to believe - 'reminding' Helms, not so gently, of the cover-up of CIA assassination attempts on the hero of the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro - a CIA operation that may have triggered the Kennedy assassination and which Helms desperately wanted to hide.
Wedge - Mark Riebling p.309
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Hanford nuclear tank leaks in 1973.
In June, 1973, Hanford officials detected a leak in tank 106-T the largest leak so far. About 115,000 gallons escaped engineering control, raising serious questions about the AEC's ability to detect leaks in a timely fashion. An estimated fifty-one days of steady leaking ocurred before the 106-T spill was discovered.
Nukespeak - Gilette
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..it wasn't until 1973 that manufacturers stopped putting mercury in cosmetics, hair tonics, and soaps, and the remains of many of these products may still be leeching out of the landfills where they were buried years ago.
Our Endangered Earth - John Langone
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