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Kistiakowsky. As a reward for my services during the election campaign. I was appointed a member of--as it turned out--a fictitious organization called something like the President's advisors or board of advisors on foreign policy. It met once or twice during the campaign for a briefing and...
Wiesner. What actually happened on the study referred to in the Times was that we began to examine General (James) Gavin's enclave proposal seriously and we decided we didn't have enough facts about where the troops were, where the civilian population was, and a great number of other...
Cohen said he and Downey attended a CIA recruitment briefing at Yale University in the early fifties, and when asked if he thought Downey was in fact an agent at the time of his capture, he replied. "Undoubtedly."
The move was far from a sudden Nixon impulse. Less than two weeks after his Inauguration, he had sent Kissinger a memo declaring: "I think we should give every encouragement to the idea that this Administration is seeking rapprochement with the Chinese." But it was typical of the Nixon style...
Footprints. Most journalists are ambivalent about the threat. Kraslow, despite his anger at the Post last week, shares Bradlee's general disdain for backgrounders. When large numbers of reporters publish and broadcast similar stories based on the same briefing, informed people can usually guess who the informed source was...