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Predictably, the CIA looked daggers and spread its cloak over all. But a sniff of something escaped, and that was all Reporter Clark Mollenhoff needed. Last week, after piecing the details together and talking with Tofte, Mollenhoff spread the story over his papers, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and the Des Moines Register and Tribune...
...absolutely untrue, and you are the first that ought to know it. I'm sick and tired of having implications made that we have drawn down the forces in Western Europe when we haven't." McNamara lost his temper again when Cowles publications' Washington Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff, a longtime foe, persistently accused him of dodging questions about an adverse report by the Preparedness Subcommittee that the Pentagon has refused to release. The Defense Secretary said bitterly: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks you have thrown at me for five years...
...executive editor of the five-paper Knight chain. Said Publisher Gene Robb of the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union: "A government can successfully lie no more than once to its people. Thereafter, everything it says and does becomes suspect." Roughest of all was the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff, who suggested that veteran Newsman Sylvester, 61 (37 years with the Newark News), ought to resign...
Coad's troubles had been building up for quite a while. They came into public view only after Clark Mollenhoff, the deep-digging Washington correspondent for the Des Moines Register, got fascinated by Coad's marital affairs. Last March, it seemed, Merwin Coad had traveled to Double Springs, Ala., and got a quickie divorce from his wife Delores. Then he returned to Washington and, in May, married his administrative assistant's former wife, a blonde ex-beauty queen (Miss Ogden, Utah...
Poking around. Reporter Mollenhoff discovered that Coad had agreed to pay $300 a month to support his first wife and their four children, that he had recently purchased a new home in a Washington suburb, and that he was deeply in debt. Congressman Coad made some remarkable admissions. Even back in Iowa, Coad had been a grain speculator. Now, in Washington, as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, he continued playing the grain market. Coad claimed to Mollenhoff that it was obvious that he had not used inside information, since he had ended up losing money. Moreover, Coad...