Word: reber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy immediately saw a chance to serve up another curve ball. Seated next to Reber was Assistant Defense Secretary H. Struve Hensel, whom McCarthy views as the hardest hitter in the Army lineup. Joe archly asked that Hensel identify himself. Bulky Struve Hensel arose, replied angrily: ". . . Senator McCarthy knows well who I am, and so does every- one else here." Joe smirked...
...Knows Well Who I Am." Chairman Mundt. no lawyer though cast in a judicial role, solved the problem by avoiding an answer. Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins rumbled out the name of the first witness: Major General Miles Reber, former Chief of Army legislative liaison, now U.S. Army commander in Europe's Western area...
...McCarthy listened intently to Reber's testimony, twin furrows appeared on the Senator's brow. Nervously he took notes, pausing from time to time to give ear to the excited whispers of his committee counsel, Roy Cohn, who is also accused by the Army of seeking.favors for Private Schine. Counsel Jenkins leaned close to the microphone, the corners of his cavernous mouth turned down, his Tennessee drawl booming throughout the room. He worked entirely without notes...
Balding General Reber told of the efforts to wangle a direct commission for Schine, beginning with a call from McCarthy's office last July 8 and continuing with as many as two or three calls a day from Cohn until the end of the month. Although he did not feel he had been high-pressured by Senator McCarthy, the general was of different mind about Roy Cohn. Said he: in his ten years as the Army's legislative liaison man, he could recall "no instance under which I was put under greater pressure...
Major General Miles Reber, then chief of the Army Legislative Liaison, received a phone call stating that Senator McCarthy desired to see him. He went to the Senator's office, and Senator McCarthy there informed General Reber that he was very interested in securing a direct commission for Mr. G. David Schine, a consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, on the basis of Mr. Schine's education, business experience and prior service with the Army Transport Service...