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...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...
...Clincher. On Dec. 4. 1945, a second FBI report went to the White House. It contained further details and named more spies. A third report, concentrating on White with still more detail, was sent to the White House on Feb. 4, 1946. In his letter accompanying that report, Hoover observed that both Truman and Vaughan had "expressed interest" in the subject, indicating that the earlier reports had been noticed and considered...
...from supporting Truman's new defense that the Administration left the spies in office in an effort to trap them, the Hoover letter says that a special report was made on White because his confirmation was pending before the Senate. If Hoover had wanted to have White in the Government to get more evidence, he would hardly have stressed the fact that White was about to get a new and better Government...
...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...