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...proceedings against Aaron Burr. Jefferson refused on both the grounds that no court could force him to "abandon superior duties," and because of "the necessary right of the President to decide . . . what papers . . . the public interests permit to be communicated." At least 16 Presidents, among them Washington, Coolidge and Hoover, have declined to supply Congress with certain requested information...
...first warning that Harry Dexter White and other Government employees were assisting a Communist espionage ring was sent to the White House on Nov. 8, 1945 by FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Marked "top secret." the report was sent by special messenger to Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan...
...Alert. In his opening sentence, FBI Chief Hoover used language designed to arouse the attention of even the busiest Government official. He began: "As a result of the bureau's investigative operations, information has been obtained that a number of persons employed by the Government of the U.S. have been furnishing data and information to persons outside the Federal Government who are in turn transmitting this information to agents of the Soviet government...
...Hoover went on to say that the FBI was not yet certain about "the degree and nature of the complicity of these people in the espionage ring," but it was sure that they were serving as sources. He named 14 Government employees. Among them: White. Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, George Silverman, Victor Perlo, William Ludwig Ullmann...
There were sharp specifics about the ring's operations. Said Hoover: "The Government documents were forwarded to Gregory Silvermaster, who photographed them and turned the exposed but undeveloped film over to a contact of the Soviet ... In the past, it is reported, the contact man made trips to Washington, D.C. once every two weeks, and would pick up on each occasion an average of 40 rolls of 35-mm. film." He concluded his letter: "An investigation of this matter is being pushed vigorously, but I thought the President and you [Vaughan] would be interested in the foregoing information immediately...