Evening star., 1954-04-12
The Mccarthy Story
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j has access to material from FBI
files.
Nevertheless, some classified
documents and Government in
formation of a secret nature
somehow come into Senator Nc
Carthy'S possession.
Reed Harris. formerly a top of
fetal in the International In
formation Administration, who
was quizzed by Senator McCar-
thy's committee, cites a personal
experience.
On the day before his closed
session with the committee, Mr..
Harris says, q message went from
his Office in Washington to the
New York Office of the agency.
It was transmitted, he says,
by an electronic "Scrambler. I"
The .unscrambling" device was
at the receiving end of the sys-
tenn.
Mr. Harris says that "a hours
later Senator Mccarthy had the
message lin the clear" that is,
contents known. He comments:
"Only a few people are involved
in the transmission of such
messages They are highly class
flied. Yet Mccarthy had it."
Does Senator Mccarthy tap
telephones?
Doubts Phones Tapped.
A former top aide to the SEN
ator-Who asked not to be identi-
f1ed-sald he doesn't believe so.
He said this was not the prac-
tice while he was in Senator
McCarthy's Office.
Mr.. Harris, however, recalled
a telephone conversation with a
woman friend.
"She called me at my home
one night two hours later,
one of McCarthy's agents was
in her apartment house, asking
the neighbors if they had ever
seen me in her apartment, if I
had been there late at night and
so on"
Mr.. Harris laughed. "Tne lady
is 30 years old, which consid-
erably surprised McCartliy's
agent"
Even without any such cloak
and-dagger methods, Mccarthy
would have wide powers and re-
sources. His own staff and the
subcommittee staff are, in effect,
one and the same thing. He has
Is investigators and lawyers, 10
clerks and stenographers.
The two key men in his OPP
Grafton are the chief counsel,
Roy Cohn. and the chief of staff,
Francis Carr, a former FBI
agent. They direct the investi-
cations, receive the day-to- day
reports of the agents, brief Sem
ator Mccarthy as to progress.
A case may start in any num-
ber of ways. A great many come
from tips. Some are referred to
Senator McCarthy's committee
from other Senate committees.
Others develop from leads that
appear in the investigation of a
totally different case.
Interrupts Honeymoon.
! He suddenly became so inter
ested in the Fort Monmouth
| IN. .J.) radar center that he in
terrupted his honeymoon in the
West Indies, hastened home and
opened an inquiry. Actually. the
Army already had suspended
some civilian employees at Fort
Monmouth for security reasons.
Presumably Senator McCarthy's
investigators passed this word to
him.
AS for the "one-man hearing"
criticism, Senator Mccarthy con-
tends they are one-man only be-
cause other members fail to show
up. Some members say, how
ever, that Senator Mccarthy
sometimes calls hearing on
such short notice that they can't
possibly get there.
The procedure is to provide the
subcommittee, from time to time,
with one-page summaries of the
findings in cases under inquiry.
Senator Jackson, Democrat, OF
w a S hington, a subcommittee
member, said the summaries
were not too complete, although
! they've been getting bett ter
! lately"
| So the questions arose:
Does Senator McCarthy's staff
honestly seek information, pur-
suing the facts with an open
mind? Or is an inquiry con-
Quoted, and the findings pre-
sented, SO as to ''prove" what
Senator Mccarthy wants
proved?"
"If the staff goes out to try
to prove something" Senator
Jackson said, based on theory
of their own, without regard to
obiectivity, then you can't have
a fair and impartial hearing. The
facts may not be at all as they
are reported to the American
people"