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...that Truman was aware at least that he might be a spy. The controversy turns on whether Truman ought to have permitted his appointment to the International Monetary Fund. Truman's first assertion, that he retained White to allow the FBI to collect information enough to convict him is at best dubious, witness Hoover's testimony. Truman's further assertion, however, that he retained White to protect the FBI's extensive investigation then in progress seems much stronger...
Reduced Charge. In Los Angeles, jailed on suspicion of auto theft, ex-Convict Henry Segura swiped Cellmate Manuel Salazar's clothes and identification cards, paid Salazar's $25 fine for drunkenness and calmly walked out the front door...
...obvious purpose is not to convict the man on the stand but to use the testimony of the witness to find out about someone with whom he has been associated and whom he may be protecting under the pretext that he is protecting himself. An attorney general with the power that Brownell wants would have to choose carefully between suspected conspirators, lest big ones get away by testifying under immunity while less guilty associates are trapped by the testimony of the more guilty. But this task is not impossible. Said Brownell: "Almost every heinous crime on the law books, committed...
Hall next attached himself to John Hager, an ex-convict (bad checks) turned taxicab driver and pimp. When the kidnaper gave Hager an $18 tip, the cabbie was elated. "I knew I had a Good-Time Charl'e." he gloated. He took Hall to a hefty (176 Ibs.), blonde prostitute named Sandy O'Day, and the three drove to a motor court near St. Louis. Hall tossed $2,480 onto the bed for Hager who counted it and announced the total. Hall, to make it a round figure, added $20. Next morning Hager returned to the motel...
...coming without the visitor's seeing him; on "tough" stories he often carries a .38 revolver, just in case. Last week in the Mirror city room, Crime Reporter Hughes got a phone call from a business acquaintance; on the long-distance line from Baltimore was an ex-convict named Johnny Johnson, 34, out on parole after nine years in Alcatraz for a series of bank robberies...