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INS Official Under Fire

December 6, 1996

The Immigration and Naturalization Service's operations manager is facing a revolt by the agency's field managers, who accuse the INS's third-ranking official of accepting favors from a Korean businessman who formerly spied for South Korea, awarding bonuses to the female agent he later married, and blocking communication between INS headquarters and its field offices, reported today.

December 6, 1996

THE DAILY FED

INS Official Under Fire

The Washington Post

INS Operations Director William Slattery, 49, denied charges of impropriety, though he agreed that communication between headquarters and the field offices could be improved. Managers of the INS's 57 field offices met with INS Commissioner Doris Meissner last month in San Antonio, blaming Slattery for low morale in the field and for communication breakdowns.

Slattery is also alleged to have delayed INS raids on New York garment factories in 1993 after Korean businessman Yung-Soo Yoo took him golfing and to a sauna. Yoo worked for the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in the 1970s and was convicted of fraud in 1984.

Slattery said he is friends with Yoo but denied the allegations of cronyism.

INS employees who worked under Slattery when he was district director in New York from 1990 to 1994 complained that Slattery showed favoritism to agent Rosemary LaGuardia, whom he married last month.

Slattery said he never gave LaGuardia special treatment.

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