Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least that he might be a spy. The controversy turns on whether Truman ought to have permitted his appointment to the International Monetary Fund. Truman's first assertion, that he retained White to allow the FBI to collect information enough to convict him is at best dubious, witness Hoover's testimony. Truman's further assertion, however, that he retained White to protect the FBI's extensive investigation then in progress seems much stronger...
...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 in the AP wire dispatch. And yet a three...
...Truman speech was broadcast late at night, while the senate hearings took place in the afternoon and were no longer as timely for the next morning's paper. The HLU telegram, though perhaps a bit overplayed, was local news, and it had a higher priority than the Brownell-Hoover story, which, by the way, had a bigger headline and as many column inches devoted to it as the Truman speech...
...Hoover left no doubt that he considered his factual case complete. His letter said. "This whole network has been under intensive investigation since November 1945, and it is the results of these efforts that I am able to make available...
...longer have access to strategic information or influence on policy. There is no record that any of these steps were taken. White and others named in the reports retained access to secrets. None of them were trapped by actions after 1946. The case against them today is substantially what Hoover presented in the three reports...