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Geneviéve de Galard had flown to Dienbienphu many times before by moonlight (the planes would not tempt Communist fire by day), but this time the C-47 sprang an oil leak and could not be repaired until morning. Promptly at dawn the Communists knocked the C-47 °ut of the war, and Nurse de Galard was marooned with the garrison. "The boys have invited me to stay for the siege," she radioed her mother...
Next day copies of the Army's "bill of particulars" against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of the calculated leak, cried foul. Cohn trumpeted a threat to obstruct the investigation, and demanded an investigation of the leaks. Later he withdrew the threat...
...long fighting years of the Battle of Washington had given the Air Force a sensitive defense mechanism and an annoying passion for flamboyant publicity to drive its message home to the U.S. public, a proneness to leak its troubles to partisans in the press and in Congress when the infighting got tough. As Vanden-berg's Vice Chief of Staff, Nate Twining knew the infighting techniques as well as anybody. But when President Eisenhower promoted Twining to Chief of Staff last June, it was Twining's judgment that the long revolution was over, that the time had come...
Among those trying to find out about the story were Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, AECommissioner Lewis Strauss - and President Dwight Eisenhower. Cause of the excitement was a deliberate "leak" from the office of Rear Admiral Lewis...
...Parks aide and fellow submariner, Commander Slade Cutter, onetime Annapolis football hero (he kicked the field goal that beat Army 3-0 in the 1934 game), was the direct source of the leak ("Hell" said an old Pentagon hand, "that was no leak, it was a fire hose"). The inside dope from the Parks office, as splashed out in the Pentagon pressroom: the atomic submarine Nautilus is really unsuited for combat; it is too big, too expensive, too noisy; its torpedo tubes were added as an afterthought; its sonar equipment will not work at high speed; it has no safety...