Evening star., 1954-03-13
McC Stevens
Lunch Together

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Lunch Together
No. 8 Nov. II. 1853.
Memorandum for Files
Meeting with Stevens.
At the request of Secretary
Stevens he came to New York
and asked Senator Mccarthy
to have lunch with him at the
Merchants Club. The Secre-
tary was accompanied by John
Adams. Frank Carr and Roy
Cohn were present through
out. "A friend of the Senator's
with whom he had a prior en-
gagement also joined the
luncheon a bit later,
The discussion centered
about Secretary Stevens press
conference in which he said
there had been no espionage
at Fort Monmouth. Mr..
Stevens produced the correct
transcript of the conference
and said he had been badly
miSquoted in the press and
the press had absolutely dis
torted what he said and put in
some plain untruths. At this
meeting Stevens again said he
wished we could get onto the
Air Force and the Navy and
the personnel employed di-
rectly by the defense establish
ment instead of continuing
with the Army hearings.
Dec. 8, 1853.
From Roy Cohn
To Senator Mccarthy.
John Adams said today that
following up the idea about
investigation the Air Force he
had gotten specific informa-
ton from us about an Air
Force base where there were a
large number of homosexuals.
He said that he would trade
us that information if we
would tell him what the next
Army project was that we
would investigate.
No. 4 Confidential,
Memorandum:
From Frank Carr
To Senator Mccarthy.
Dec. 8. 1858.
I couldn't get you on the
telephone. What I want to
tell you is that I am getting
fed up with the way the Army
is trying to use Schine as a
hostage to pressure us to stop
our hearings on the Army.
Again today John Adams
came down here after the
hearing and using clever
phrases tried to find out,
what's there in it for us" if
he and Stevens did something
for Schine. He refers to
Schine as our hostage or the
hostage whenever his name
comes up. I made it clear
that as far as I was concerned,
I personally didn't care what
treatment they geve Schine,
and that as far as was con-
cerned, he was in the Army.
did say that I thought that
1t wasn't fair of them to take
1t out on Schine, because we
were investigating the Army, or
to keep using it to try to stop
our Investigations. I told him
the only contact we were au-
thorized to have with him
about Schine was on Investiga-
tions Committee business.
My telling him this does no
real good. as he constantly
Jumps together all his talk
about Schine with suggestions
that We stop holding hearings
on the Army.
I am convinced that they
will keep right on trying to
blackmail us as long as Schine
is in the Army. Even though
they said he deserved the COM
mission, they didn't give it to
him because of the left-wing
press and they keep trying to
dangle proposed small favors
to him in front of us. Adams,
by his attitude makes it clear
that the Army will do nothing
to see that Schine gets into
any kind of an assignment to
which he is qualified. unless we
stop investigating the Army.
When he brought up the
whats there in it for us" this
morning. I told him that I saw
no chance of stopping the
hearings. suggest that he talk
with you.
This hostage business is get
ting to be a real thorn in my
side and I wish that they
would either give Schine what
he deserves or leave him in the
rear ranks forever without
bothering me about it.
Declares Lowton
Was to Be Relieved
Dec. II, 1853
No. S
To Messrs. Cohn and Carr
From Senator Mccarthy
m talking to John Adams
today. I learned that Gen.
Lawton, as you recall, CO.
operated fully with the COM
mittee in the exposure of sub
versives at Fort Monmouth, is
about to be relieved of his COM