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...military intelligence had become suspicious of Hiskey, found that he held a reserve commission in the Army, had him called up and sent to duty on the Canol project in the Yukon, where "he counted underwear." The committee recommended that Hiskey, his exwife, Marcia, Chapin, and the missing Adams be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit espionage...
...cable release. His trick is to walk around the room talking to his subjects till they are wheedled, or needled, into the expression he wants. Then he snaps the shot. When irascible Harold Ickes persisted in looking blandly benevolent, a reference to his pet hate of the moment, the Canol project prodded him into looking natural...
...Governments last week put up for sale one of the costliest flops of the war: the $135,000,000 Canol oil project of the U.S. in northern Canada...
...report spared no one. Its first bad example was an old favorite: the $135,000,000 Canol oil pipeline project in Canada and Alaska. The report charged that Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell Army Supply Chief, had ordered the pipeline built on the basis of a "wholly inadequate study" and had continued its construction in "disregard of repeated warnings by experts." Then it laid into Fleet Admiral Ernest King. He had "used the high office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the claim of military secrecy for the purpose of preventing the Congress and the people from discontinuing...
...reporters knew that the General had more on his mind than fishing. As chief of the Canadian Army's Western Command, embracing British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, he has stated bluntly that he considers the area "vulnerable." Among its military assets: the deteriorating Canol pipeline, 120 bridges on the highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, a lot of abandoned Army camps, at least four big airports, a latticework of communications. Liabilities: long winter nights, frozen lakes and ground inviting airborne invasion. Perhaps a quick run over the area might uncover some fresh viewpoints on defense...