The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-13
ARMY COUNSEL
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sion, Ray H. Jenkins, special coun-
sci to the Senate Investigations
subcommittee, pressed questions
which turned largely about these
contentious.
jenkins climaxed this phase of
his discrimination by asking
whether Adams was saying the
Army had mo desire, however
slight" to stop the Mccarthy in
vestigation. Jenkins asked for q
yes or no answer.
Explains Army Wish
Adams hesitated. He asked that
the question be read back to him
by the stenographer. When it was
read, he said "the answer is in
the negative" and went on to make
an explanatory statement as to the
desire for an end to the type of
hearings"
Leading UP o this point, Jenkins;
/. Recalled that Adams had test.
fled yesterday he was disturbed
when Roy Cohn, general counsel
to the Mccarthy subcommittee, be-
came enraged at being barred
from a secret radar laboratory at
Fl. Monmouth last fall. He noted
Adams had said his concern was
because he felt Cohn had the pow
er to prolong the investigation.
Jenkins asked if that wasn't IAN
admission or confession" that
Adams wanted the investigation
terminated.
Adams declared it was not. He
said Mccarthy had volunteered
previously that the subcommittee
investigation was about complete:
that 1t was preparing to turn il
over to the Army.
2. Recalled that Adams had tes-
titled a Nov. 6 luncheon at the
Pentagon, attended by Stevens,
Adams, Mccarthy, C0hn and
Francis P. Carr, staff investigator
for the Mccarthy subcommittee,
was arranged to further pursue''
McCarthy's earlier statement that
the hearings might be terminated.
jenkins suggested that indicated
the Army wanted the hearings
end. Adams insisted that was not
'fair assumption" that other
circumstances figured in the
luncheon.
Appeasemsnt ovsrisd
3. Jenkins asked if it wasn't San.
peasement" when Adams a..d
Stevens reversed Maj. Gen. C. E.
Ryan, commander at Fl. Dix, NJ,
and ordered Ryan to give a week.
end pass to Schine, former Nc
Carthy aide and son of a wealthy
N"'' >rk family who was drafted
last fall. - si~s11nnH ~
) had testified yestertiay
th"' Ryan called, him on Nov. 10
and reported the agreement to
make Schine available for McCar.
thy subcommittee work was aet.
ting ''ont Of hand" Ryan was
quoted Is saying he feared Schine
would be seen off the post not ON
subcommittee business.
Adams objected to lie word "ap-
peasement" and insisted he and
Stevens were anxious to keen re.
lations with the Mccarthy subcom.
mittee as pleasant as possible.
Under Jenkins questions. Adams
conceded the Mccarthy subcom.
mittee's investigation brought sus.
pension of IS alleged security risks
from RI. Monmouth in ga few
weeks" whereas it might have
taken a Slew months" under usual
procedures.
But he asserted that ultimately
the same thing (the suspensions
would have been aeeomplished'' by
the Army in its normal routine
A principal contention Of the Me.
Carthy camp is that the Army tried
to halt the Monmouth investigator
and that Army charges of Tim.
proper pressures" for favored
treatmenk for Pvt. Schine were
raised to that end.
A corollary Mccarthy charge is
that Adams, who became ARMY
counselor Oct. I was employed
for the prineipsl purpose Of hand
ling the committee and persuading
1t to cease its investigation"
Adams testified that Stevens. in
hiring him, didn't even indicate the
Army had a problem with the Nc.
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