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...Cohn drove his sharpest verbal barb at Adams when telling about Adams' telephone call to ask why Cohn had been ducking him. "I told Mr. Adams," Cohn calmly related, "I believed that he had been thoroughly dishonest. He asked me what I meant ... I told him that he had directly or indirectly made a blackmail threat...
Jenkins asked if Adams was being facetious or dead serious. Replied Cohn, "Sir, it is very difficult for me to try to read Mr. Adams' mind or chart his emotional position at that particular moment...
Three times, Adams had tried to shift the probe from the Army to other services, Cohn testified, and had threatened to get Private G. David Schine sent overseas. "Mr. Adams said we had not been cooperating with him and that he was going to show some examples of noncooperation, too, and how would we like it if Schine were ordered overseas...
...Cohn admitted being angry during the incident at Fort Monmouth when Stevens refused him admission to the radar laboratory. He was asked if he had said: "This is it. This is war with the Army. We will investigate the heck out of you." Cohn could not recall saying that. He said: "I come pretty close to denying [having made the remark, but] I don't have the remotest idea of all I said...
...Colonel. Roy Cohn's fit of anger at Fort Monmouth, when he was excluded from the radar laboratory, was recounted by Colonel Kenneth E. BeLieu, aide to secretary Stevens. "I thought he was blowing his top," said the colonel, a veteran of five European campaigns and of Korea, where he lost his left...