Evening star., 1958-07-08

minated Immediately" ThuS
abruptly ended an investigative
career Mr.. Shacklette has had
with various governmental adj
ministrative or congressional
groups for the last 18 years. He
returned to his Waldorf Md
farm home where he raises
dogs.
Try to Regain Initiative
Meanwhile, the subcommit-
tee made strenuous efforts to
regain the initiative, If not the
spotlight, by attempting to re-
flute in detail the Goldfine
charges and to raise questions
about the tactics of Goldfne.
1t reported that Mr.. Shack
'Ilette swore he had not stolen
records from Goldfine rooms
nor even entered any of those
rooms. It also said he denied
under oath that he recorded
or transcribed any confidential
information he and Mr.. An
derson heard by using the mi-
crophone. Mr.. Shacklette, ac-
cording to Mr.. Harris, adj
mitted having taken a "hi-fi
Eset" to the hotel room. but
heard nothing worth recording.
The subcommittee thus con-
tends that it has received no
such information, recorded or
otherwiSe, from Mr.. Shacklette.
lMr. Harris declared that even
lii there had been such ma
Iterial the committee would not
use it.
/ Mr.. Rohb demanded that
i Chairman Harris switch the
investigation from Mr.. Gold
fines dealings to interrogation
under oath of all those who
know anything about the hotel
incidents.
Opening for GOIdfine
Furthermore, the burglary
charge left an opening for Mr..
Goldflne to claim that he is
lunable-though willing-to an
lswer the subcommittee'S ques-
tons. There was still no de-
tailed report available this
morning of what documents
were stolen in the reported
burglary, but Mr.. Lotto "as-
Isumed" the missing documents
were basic to Mr.. Goldfine's
Testimony.
At midafternoon yesterday
Mr.. Lotto told reporters Mr..
Goldf1ne had stayed in bed all
day and was sick"
/ But when the millionaire in
dustrialist finally moved from
the Sheraton-C Carlton to the
Statler at 7:40 pm, he said
he had not been sick.
Il haven't slept for "a hours
and I feel very tired" he told
reporters following him across
K street. Il need a lot of
rest" he added, announcing
plans to eat dinner and go
to bed.
Legality Questioned
/ One of the many disputed
points about Mr.. Shacklette's
avowedly self-appointed role in
"bugging" hotel rooms of the
!, Goldf1ne encourage was whether
such operations were illegal.
Law enforcement officials
here gave cautious and infor-
NAL opinions that no law seems
to have been broken. Mr..
Shacklette himself told the
subcommittee yesterday chat at
no time did the microphone
"trespass" on rooms Of Mr..
Goldflne or his aides. He said
it always stayed in the adjoin-
ing rooms.
Mr.. Robb raised a question,
however, as to whether some
statute might have been vio-
lated If the microphone and
recording device picked up
voices using the telephone.
That. he surmised. might
amount to wiretapping.
More Immediately interest
ling, in view of the subcom-
mittee's search for "signifi-
cance" in the Shacklette-
Anderson operations, were ex-
plantations as to how the two
lmen obtained such convenient
hotel accommodations in the
first place.
C0nnivance Denied
Michael T. McGarry, gem
Eeral manager of the Carlton,
Idenied Mr.. Lotto's insinuations
THAT someone in the hotel may
have worked with Mr.. Ander-
lson and Mr.. Shacklette in
planting the microphones and
lallegedly stealing records from
the room occupied by Miss
Paperman.
Il am convinced that no
Sheraton employe was know
ingly responsible for the COIN
cidence of neighborine room
assignments" he said. I'VE
had no knowledge that the
committee investigators were in
the hotel or that any equip
ment had been brought into
1.-THE hotel which might be used