Word: lavenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas W. LaVenia, 43, who took leave from the U.S. Secret Service in 1944 and never returned to duty, after reports that as an agent at Hyde Park in 1943 he spent much time and money in bars with questionable associates. LaVenia's story last week to a special session of the subcommittee was that he had secretly been assigned a playboy role to help round up ten people suspected of plotting against President Roosevelt...
There was another problem. As a Brooklyn youth in 1936, LaVenia was vice president of the American Law Students Association-and McCarthy himself had denounced the association in 1950 as a Communist-front "affiliate." Said LaVenia: he had really been working against the party-liners...
...When LaVenia finished, the subcommittee decided to keep him on the job (but away from classified documents...
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