Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard participants, Fairfield, continued to investigate intelligence activities and wrote a series called "The Wiretappers" that filled The Reporter, a now-defunct periodical, almost cover-to-cover in 1952 and 1953. Fairfield, who now lives in Wisconsin, says Buckley made up the story about News staffers jostling a Crimson reporter at the Forum because no Crimson reporter covered the event...
...hear, however, that Buckley "waved a sheaf of papers at the audience--later to be stylized by Joe McCarthy as 'I held in my hand'--and announced that they were affidavits from everyone the Crimson reporter had interviewed at Yale, each denying the quotes attributed to him." Fairfield says he asked Buckley for copies of these affidavits but Buckley "icily informed me that he had no intention of honoring my request. I could then only concluded that he had lied about the affidavits...
...Buckley Rebuttal...
...BUCKLEY NOW REFUSES to comment on the matter except for a formal statement by letter sent to The Crimson after The Nation article. Buckley, editor of the National Review, only states that the "principal point" of Diamond's Nation article was "its pointlessness." He also addresses a lesscentral point or two. First, on the evidence that he sent blind copies of his correspondence with the Crimson president to the FBI, Buckley notes unabashedly, "I sent (sic) blind copies of letters I write half of the time, usually to friends who I suspect would be interested." Second, he claims...
...Buckley, Simon and Fairfield have had little contact in their post-college years. But Fairfield does recall one brief encounter. While still working for the Reporter in 1951, he was waiting alone in a ground-floor elevator of the National Press Building when Buckley entered...