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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abstracted for her Soviet friends. The FBI had wanted to withdraw from the trial rather than let its reports be admitted into evidence. For one thing, innocent people were involved. To be sure, the FBI could (and did) explain that the reports-attributed to confidential informants identified only as ND-402, ND-305 and T-7-were unprocessed, unevaluated raw material. They were also, undeniably, a bewildering clutch of gossip, hearsay and trivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Watchful Eye | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Informant ND-402 and friends had confided that Actress Helen Hayes had once performed at a benefit for Russian Relief just after the war and that New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles Tobey had attended a leftist Madison Square Garden meeting on the atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Watchful Eye | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Report from ND 402. The FBI documents consisted of reports from confidential informants who identified themselves with mysterious symbols such as EP T1, ND 402, and T-7. Much of the information was obviously gossip and hearsay; there was no assessment of the informants' reliability, and their varied statements were unrelated and fragmentary. Nevertheless, the effect was sensational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Inside the Purse | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...frightening idea really began to ake hold on June 24, 1947. That was the lay when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho ooked out of his airplane near Mt. Rainier nd saw-or thought he saw-nine enormous discs flying at 1,200 m.p.h. The .ewspapers began to talk about "flying saucers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Last week's U.N. story starts, properly, with a bearded, 16th Century Frenchman called Jean Bodin, who believed in witchcraft, numerology, astronomy a"nd national sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Suverenitet! Suverenitet! | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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