The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-03
MUNDT CALLS SECRET SESSION
TO MAP MOVE on 'SUBVERSIVES'
BY g. MILTON KELLY

BY Q. MILTON KELLY
WASHINGTON R-Sen. Mund
(R-SD) called senator's investigat
ing the McCarthy-Army row int
secret session today to consider
what to do about the names O
100 persons Mccarthy describes a.
Communists employed in sensitive
defense work.
The meeting was scheduled a.
Q prelude to this 18th day of tele
vised hearings into the accusation.
which Sen. Mccarthy (R-Wis) an6
high Army officials have flung al
one another.
The Senate Investigations sub
committee voted unanimously late
yesterday to recommend that the
Wisconsin senator and his chiei
counsel, Roy M. Cohn, turn over
to the Defense Department the 13C
names. Mccarthy ard Cohn have
said that many subversives are
employed in private defense plants
doing sensitive government work.
Mccarthy insisted such action
would do no good-that the way to
get rid Of the 130 is to expose
them at public hearings by the
subcommittee, which he normal
" heads. He has stepped off it
while it probes his row with Army
officials.
Mundt, presiding over the hear
ings. said he would lay before his
colleagues also demand by Asst.
Secretary Of Defense H. Strive
Hensel that the subcommittee
make public the transcript of a
closed subcommittee session May
IL. Hensel says he understands
that records will show Mccarthy
conceded he had nothing to prove
charges against him.
Last week the subcommittee
voted IS to dismiss as principals
to the dispute Hensel and Francis
p. Carr, McCarthy's chief of staff.
Mccarthy said then he was not re-
tracing his accusation that Hen
sci sought to discredit his subcom-
mittee. He did not object to dis
missal Of the charges, however.
Mccarthy whose differences
with the Eisenhower administra-
ton have been building up during
the hearings, tangled yesterday
with another official, Director Al
len Dulles of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency (CIA).
He spoke Of Communist infil.
tration Of the CHA" and said lit
disturbs me beyond words"
Dulles, brother Of the secretary
Of state, replied in a statement
that the charge was false. He said
he had written Mccarthy last Oct.
"a asking for any information the
senator might have on CHA per-
sonnet but had mot had a word
from him on that subject"
Mccarthy mentioned also Com
rnunist infiltration Of atomic and
hydrogen bomb plants but said he
had been persuaded, somewhat
against his judgment, not to con-
duct an investigation. The Atomic
Energy Commission had no COM
ment.
The hearings are supposed to de-
termine whether it Is true, as
charged by Secretary of the Army
Stevens and Army Counselor John
G. Adams, that Mccarthy and his
aides employed improper pressures
to win Army favors for Pvt. G.
David Schine, subcommittee aide
drafted last Nov. 3.
The Mccarthy camp has disput-
ed the accusations and in turn ac-
cused Stevens and Adams Of using |
Schine as a hostage" in efforts
to sidetrack McCarthy's hunt for
subversives in the Army.
Yesterdays session wound up In
4 long argument over the $50
names, with Democratic members
and Special Army Counsel Joseph
N. WEIGH urging Mccarthy and
Cohn to turn them over to govern
ment officials.
WEIGH urged Cohn ''before the
sun goes down" to turn the list
over to the FBI, and perhaps
nudge" its agents q bit SO that
the 100 persons may at least be
nut under surveillance.
COIN replied that the FBl knows
about all 100 already.
"Well then, what's all the ex.
element about?" WEIGH asked.
Mccarthy has contended repeat
edly that the current hearings are
delaying his efforts to root Com
munists out Of defense plants.
With COINS backing from the
witness chair yesterday, Mccarthy
argued that the FBI and the De-
tense Department lack authority
to force the dismissal of security
suspects from factory jobs. He said
such persons must be exposed at
public hearings so their civilian
bosses can fire them and make it
stick.
Mccarthy appealed anew for
authority to hold night and week
end hearings on the subject, while