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...American Activities Committee, which had taken a new lease on life by proving that its espionage investigation was something more than a "red herring." California's G.O.P. Congressman Richard Nixon beat a quick, strategic retreat via a television broadcast. Said he: "Whittaker Chambers' statement clears Duggan of any implication in the espionage ring." Democratic committee members tore at Mundt like wolves snapping at a fallen fellow. Said Congressman F. Edward Hébert of New Orleans: ". . . a blunder . . . a breach of confidence." Mississippi's loudmouthed old John Rankin cried, self-righteously: "Atrocious...
Attorney General Tom Clark also spoke up. "The evidence [gathered by the FBI] discloses," he said, "that Mr. Duggan was a loyal employee of the United States Government." Later this week on a television program, he added that Duggan had been approached ten years ago by "two persons," but that Duggan had "repulsed them both" and that "we have found no connection between him and any espionage...
...death was still unexplained. At week's end the New York police department made public the result of its special investigation: "Mr. Duggan either accidentally fell or jumped...
Early Sunday morning, three days after he attended Laurence Duggan's funeral (see cut), Sumner Welles was found unconscious and nearly frozen to death in a bleak field near his Maryland estate, about a mile south of Washington's city limits...
...employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death of Laurence Duggan, who had been his protégé and a close friend...