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...impression given by the Senators' testimony was that Adams had used the Cohn-Schine report to attempt a form of bureaucratic blackmail. But Adams had a different explanation of how the Schine case came to be coupled with the subpoenas to the Army loyalty board...
...cross-examination Counsel Jenkins and committee members sought to show that Adams had tried to bring an end to McCarthy's investigation of Army Communism by 1) ingratiating himself with Joe and Cohn, 2) using Schine as a "hostage," and 3) when these efforts failed, threatening to make public a report on the McCarthy-Cohn-Carr efforts to get favors for Schine unless Joe changed his mind about issuing subpoenas for members of the Army loyalty board...
...McKinley Dirksen was placed under oath and told how John Adams and White House Aide Gerald Morgan came to his office last Jan. 22 to urge against the subcommittee's calling Army loyalty panelists. It was then, Dirksen said, that he heard for the first time of the Cohn-Schine matter. Although he could not say that Adams actually tried to use the Cohn-Schine report as a club, Dirksen said that he had a "vague" recollection of "hints" in that direction, all of which caused him much "distress of spirit...
...Dakota's Senator Mundt, smilingly bemoaning his failure to wear his blue "television shirt," offered similar testimony about a talk he had with Adams alone on Jan. 22. Mundt said that he had been uneasy about the "juxtaposition" in which Adams placed the loyalty board plea and the Cohn-Schine affair. Mundt said that he had thought the topics were "entirely unrelated." Michigan's Senator Potter testified along the same lines about a conversation with Deputy Army Counselor Lewis Berry...
Under direct examination Adams had told of Cohn's intense eagerness to get Schine assigned back to New York. On Jan. 18, said Adams, he talked long distance with Cohn, then on vacation in Boca Raton, Fla., and passed on the unwelcome word that Schine would be at Camp Gordon for from two to five months...