Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a blab-mouthed Congressman leaked this news to the press, the Air Force let out an anguished cry. For months it has been shifting the big planes from base to base, doing all it could to make its handful of B-36s look like a mighty fleet. Even some Congressmen were shocked by the leak. Said Senator Dick Russell, who presided over the MacArthur hearing and did his level best to protect official secrets: "It is difficult to conceive of such utter lack of responsibility . . . [This] might well be the cause of World...
...Leak. As the Government expanded, it developed a slick technique of professional pressagentry. Sometimes the pressagents do a helpful and necessary job of briefing reporters on complicated subjects. But too often they plug only the Administration's side of a crucial Government issue, hope the reporter hasn't the sense or gumption to dig up the other side. The Federal Government now employs about 5,000 full-and part-time pressagents, spends an estimated $65 million a year on salaries and printing. The payroll is still growing fast; in a year the number of pressagents in the Defense...
...Formula. Like the White House, the State Department has an official "spokesman," Press Chief Mike McDermott, who has been in the department for 31 years. But soon after Dean Acheson became Secretary, State installed a young man known to the staff as "the high-level leak," to give major correspondents as much "background" information as he thought necessary to put over State's point. When State's troubles multiplied, Acheson and his high command took to talking to reporters and selected pundits in relays, have-now staged nearly 1,000 such off-the-record conferences...
...Washington, a favorite trick of politicos to undermine an opponent-or a trusting friend-is to "leak" uncomplimentary stories about him to newsmen. Last week the leak was briefly turned against Vice President Alben Barkley. The word was whispered around Washington that Alben Barkley could never run again for the vice presidency. "The old man," said one Senator, "just can't take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert...
...Administration's rejoinder to the MacArthur proposals: bombing of Manchurian bases or of the Chinese mainland would not cripple the enemy as much as Mac-Arthur believes, because, for one thing, life is cheap in China; a naval blockade would involve the U.S. with Russian ships, would probably "leak like a sieve," and would not shut off the main Chinese supplies, coming by land from Russia; the value of Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Formosa in any expedition against the Reds is negligible. "I do not believe . . . the result would be commensurate with the effort that...