Word: grutzner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifth Air Force. Reason: intelligence believed the encounter so fleeting that the enemy still did not realize the Sabre jets' presence . . . On the most crucial point at stake, TIME garbles my testimony by reporting: "Talbert argued that security was violated when [the New York Times' Correspondent Charles] Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped." There weren't any commercial wires. What I swore was that Mr. Grutzner sent his story by commercial wireless to the U.S. in uncoded English and that this was the equivalent of broadcasting...
...Reader Talbert stand where he chooses. The facts remain: 1) Air Force headquarters cleared Correspondent Grutzner's story of the Sabre jets, 2) the Department of Defense refused to revoke his accreditation, and 3) thus rewarded him with a clean beat over Correspondent Talbert and other competing newsmen...
Unfriendly Rivalry. One of the final witnesses to come before the Security committee was the New York Herald Tribune's Military and Aviation Editor Ansel Talbert. He was called to testify on whether Timesman Grutzner had helped the enemy by prematurely writing a story about the first F-86 Sabre jets in action in Korea five years ago. Talbert told how he, Grutzner and other reporters had been told of the Sabre jets' first victory over the MIGs in North Korea, but had been directed by the Fifth Air Force not to release the news. Talbert said that...
...Grutzner sent his Sabre jet story on for clearance by Washington and the Times printed it, after Air, Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg gave his O.K. Talbert argued that security was violated when Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped. Talbert quoted General George Stratemeyer as calling Grutzner's story "one of the greatest security breaches...
...Senate subcommittee got very little response from most of the twelve subpoenaed witnesses, all named by Burdett. One man called, however, was Charles Grutzner, 51, since 1941 a reporter for the New York Times. By chance, Grutzner was presented on a CBS Omnibus TV program as a typical Times reporter. Burdett named him as a member of the prewar Brooklyn Eagle Communist unit. Times executives, tipped off to Grutzner's Communist background, questioned Grutzner in May. He quickly admitted party membership from 1937 to 1940. He had been recruited by Nat Einhorn, he testified, over a cup of coffee...