The tape transcripts strongly suggest that Mr. Fuhrman was a member.

Feris's affidavit was part of thousands of pages of testimony, documents, tape transcripts and videotapes that a federal judge in Newark unsealed on Friday.

In an interview, the lawyer, Michael Nussbaum, said that it was not clear from the tape transcript who was offering what.

Newsweek has been credited for every reprint of tape transcripts, and its reporters and editors have appeared on several news programs.

But we know now, thanks to Watergate historian Stanley Kutler's remarkable book of tape transcripts, Abuse of Power .

"Even the most vehement of the President's supporters among my colleagues are shaken," he said after reviewing the 1,254 pages of edited tape transcripts.

Perhaps Mr. Plotz has a tape transcript of the interview.

"And every time we got a partner that don't agree with us, we kill him," Mr. Gotti said, according to the tape transcript prepared by the prosecution.

The authors, respected journalists who covered the Tampa trial, have been able to weave a convincing and tight narrative out of hundreds of interviews, tape transcripts and other material.

The accuracy of the tape transcripts was attacked by a defense lawyer, Jay Goldberg, who moved for a mistrial after the judge curtailed his attack.