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...executed by hanging.) The apparent purpose of his memoir was to bolster his chances of a reprieve and to arouse public sympathy. Eichmann asked his defense attorney, Robert Servatius, to seek permission for its publication. The trial prosecutor, Gideon Hausner, refused; then Premier David Ben-Gurion ordered that the manuscript be suppressed for 15 years and placed in the state archives. Its existence was known to only a few people...
...memoir will be contained in an updated Hebrew edition of Hausner's 1966 book on the trial, Justice in Jerusalem, which will be published in Israel this March. Hausner, who is now chairman of the Yad Vashem memorial to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem, feels the entire manuscript should not be published on the grounds that it is rambling, repetitive and stuffed with what he calls the typical Nazi "jargon of violence." Besides, adds Israel's former Attorney General, "I felt that Eichmann had ample opportunity to make his defense during the trial, and did not feel that...
Snepp, the son of a North Carolina state judge, had signed two secrecy agreements during his eight years with the CIA. But when the CIA demanded to see his manuscript, Snepp refused. He maintained that he was obliged to submit only classified or nonpublic information. And his book, he insisted, contained none-a fact conceded even by the CIA. The agency, which has been troubled by the spy-and-tell books of another former agent, Philip Agee, decided to take Snepp to court to show that the secrecy pledge was not to be trifled with...
...wrote a book-later he said it was only an "unfinished manuscript," the contents of which were leaked by unscrupulous reporters-that began to explain the subversive and destructive forces at work in his country. The thesis of the "manuscript" The Politician, now in its ninth printing with more than 285,000 copies in print, is startling: "Dwight D. Eisenhower was, through his whole career, a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy," and was guilty of treason...
...when Houghton finally released the collection, scholars from around the world were delighted. "There were 35 people in the reading room at 11 a.m.," manuscript curator Rodney Dennis said the day the papers came out of storage. "Thirty of them were working on Trotsky, and five on the rest of Western civilization," he added...