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...Restraint. Occasionally, the rudderless hearings drifted near to the heart of the matter. Time & again, McCarthy tried to get Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens to answer yes or no to the question: Did he try to get McCarthy to call off the hearings an security risks at Fort Monmouth, N.J.? Time & again, Stevens made a sound distinction: "I wanted to have the type of hearing that you were conducting suspended . . . If you had held the type of hearing which would have given the American people ... a more accurate evaluation of what the situation was at Fort Monmouth, I would...
...Cohn, excluded from a secret radar laboratory at Fort Monmouth by an on-the-spot decision of Stevens, was "extremely angry" and was heard to say: "This means war . . . Don't they think I am cleared for classified information? I have access to FBI files when I want them* . . . They did this just to embarrass me. We will really investigate the Army...
John Gibbons Adams, 42, Army Department counselor, was assigned by Stevens to work closely with McCarthy and Cohn during the Fort Monmouth investigation and the Peress case. Last month he drew up the Army's report on the Schine case...
...Greatly Over-Exaggerated." After the McCarthy committee started its Fort Monmouth investigation, said Stevens, the Army suspended 29 employees from that establishment. Asked Jenkins: "Were there 29 suspensions as a result of the McCarthy investigation?" Said Stevens: "My answer to that would have to be no. Then I have to say 'but'-I think it is probably true that as a result of this committee's activities some of those suspensions took effect sooner than they otherwise would have." The exchange continued, rapid-fire...
...final decisions have been handed down yet on the 21 Monmouth employees who were suspended as security risks. An additional 24 employees lost their security clearance, but were not suspended...