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During the hearings he confounded his own attack. He started out against Stevens and Army Counselor Adams. Later he dragged in Assistant Defense Secretary Hensel (admitting last week that he had assumed Hensel's implication by "adding two and two"), and then hinted that Deputy Attorney General William Rogers was the guilty party. Finally, he charged that he was the victim of a Democratic scheme, masterminded by Harry Truman's onetime counsel, Clark Clifford. By frequently shifting his target, McCarthy revealed his own lack of conviction in his charges...
...document included: 1) denials of the Army's charges that "improper means" were used to get favors for Private Schine; 2) a charge of "misconduct and possible law violation" by Assistant Defense Secretary Hensel; 3) 20 charges that Army Counselor Adams had tried to obstruct McCarthy's investigations in various ways; 4) four similar charges against Army Secretary Stevens...
...Herman) Struve Hensel, 52, Assistant Defense Secretary for Internal Security Affairs, has been the Army's chief behind-the-scenes legal strategist in the McCarthy fight, last week became a downstage "principal" in the case as a result of McCarthy's charges against...
...alumnus of three of Manhattan's most noted law firms (Cravath; Milbank; Carter, Ledyard), Hensel went to Washington in 1941, has been there on & off ever since...
McCarthy charged that Hensel, while a Navy lawyer and then the Assistant Secretary, drew $56,526.64 in wartime profits from a "ships' supply firm which was operating with Government sanction and with Government priorities." Hensel answered with the hottest blast against McCarthy by any Administration official to date, calling the charges "barefaced lies." As an inactive partner of a firm doing business with private steamship companies, not the Government. Hensel declared that he had done nothing illegal or unethical. McCarthy, he said, "is cornered and is attempting a diversionary move...