Word: furniss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement by Mr. Fairfield that "New Haven Agents wander in and out of Provost Edgar S. Furniss' office 'every day,'" is typical of the author's inability either to accurately secure or report facts. Actually Provost Furniss is contacted only a few thues during the course of a year by the Special Agents of the FBI and then only in the course of official business growing out of the responsibilities placed upon this Bureau by law or Presidential Directive...
Paragraph 4: Provost Furniss' exact statement, as he sat in his office, was: "These gum-shoes are in and out of here every day." At the time, the conversation was concerned strictly with the FBI. The "every day" was placed in quotes purposely to indicate that it was not the author's report of a fact, but his repetition of what had been told him, in this case by the man most qualified to make such a statement...
Paragraph 5: The first statement was based on the opinions of such men as Provost Furniss, Professor of Philosophy Paul Weiss, Robert S. Cohen, and in fact most of the 30-odd men with whom the author spoke at Yale. Moreover, the FBI documents made public at the Judith Coplon trial last week prove that the FBI does use a large number of "confidential informants...
...knew of no organization besides the FBI which could have made the secret report on Mr. Cohen. The only further evidence we could possibly obtain would be either confessions by FBI agents that they had violated their own code of ethics or identification of the informant by Provost Furniss. And the Provest would have to break an oath to do the latter...
...Provost Furniss has assured, "Accepting any such report is neither a university practice nor policy." Later, however, the Provost said he would oppose any appointment if the fact that the man was a Communist "came to my attention...