The tentative settlement, which requires approval by the teamsters local's membership, will affect 8,000 full-time and part-time workers in agencies directly controlled by the Mayor.

Police were at last aware that the White Column was an agency controlled by spies.

The authority, a sprawling agency controlled by the governor, has a role in generating and delivering electricity to every part of the state.

The militsiya was working with the FBI these days, and while this kind of operation didn't fit the Bureau's style, there was no end of secret agencies controlled from Washington.

Another casualty may be the effort to overhaul the investment-approvals process, which hinges on an agency controlled by Mr. Rao, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.

All previous presidential elections were organized by agencies controlled by the governing party.

The Koch administration studied whether to abandon its contracts with the Legal Aid Society and provide lawyers for the poor through a new public-defender agency directly controlled by the city.

He argued that while those agencies were created to run independently, they lacked "political accountability" and had grown fatter and more wasteful than agencies directly controlled by the Mayor's office.

Mr. Levey noted that the resolution cited three people as off limits to outside commercial transactions, and, in another section, prohibited transactions with agencies "owned or controlled" by them.

Kuo wasn't naive enough to think himself aware of every secret agency or group controlled from Washington.