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...recent journalism's biggest identity mix-ups, Henry Dana White '21, an unassuming Boston attorney, became known to millions of Americans this week in Life Magazine as Harry Dexter White, a dead spy suspect and target of the Administration's latest attack on the Truman regime...
...latest evidence of the CRIMSON's slanting of the news is manifested in the treatment of the Harry Dexter White case. On Monday, November 16, Harry Truman spoke nationally defending his position in the case. The CRIMSON gave this story a center column on the first page. On Tuesday, November 17, Herbert Brownell Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover appeared in front of the Senate Internal Security Committee and refuted a major part of Mr. Truman's speech. The report of this testimony, which was headline news in almost every other newspaper in the country, was carried by the CRIMSON only...
...week long the Harry Dexter White scandal burst over the head of Harry Truman. At first the former President reacted as though he had been startled. In a single day, he took two conflicting positions. The first was that he knew nothing about the FBI reports on White, but had fired White as soon as he found out he was disloyal. When Eisenhower's press secretary made public a laudatory letter from Truman accepting White's resignation, the former President took Position No. 2: White was "fired by resignation" (TIME...
...falsehood. And the man who made it had every reason to know it is a falsehood." Truman recalled an FBI report to the White House. "The report contained many names . . . concerning whom there were then unverified accusations. Among the names mentioned. I now find, was that of Harry Dexter White ... As best I can now determine, I first learned of the accusation . . . early in February 1946, when an FBI report specifically discussing activities of Harry Dexter White was brought to my attention . . . This report showed that serious accusations had been made against White, but it pointed out that it would...
...first warning that Harry Dexter White and other Government employees were assisting a Communist espionage ring was sent to the White House on Nov. 8, 1945 by FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Marked "top secret." the report was sent by special messenger to Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan...