Word: samuel
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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY. Director: Lieut. General Samuel Phillips, U.S.A.F. Employees: 25,000. Budget: classified. Created in 1952 as a separate agency within the Defense Department. Makes and breaks codes, develops techniques for electronic surveillance of foreign troop and ship movements and construction of military facilities (NSA equipment was used on the U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia...
Chief Counsel Samuel Dash seemed well-organized and fully competent. An expert on wiretapping (he wrote a scholarly study called The Eavesdroppers), he has supervised the interrogation of more than 100 prospective witnesses to prepare for the TV testimony...
...legislation and was a member of John F. Kennedy's brain trust in the campaign against Richard Nixon. Kennedy appointed him Solicitor General in 1961; he resigned in 1965 to return to Harvard. Among his law-school pupils in the '40s: Elliot Richardson and Ervin Committee Counsel Samuel Dash...
Most of the questioning will probably be done by the committee's chief counsel, Samuel Dash, 48, who heads a staff of 39. Dash's credentials are impeccable: he served as a district attorney in Philadelphia, teaches law at Georgetown, and wrote a book on electronic surveillance, The Eavesdroppers. Working alongside him is Chief Minority Counsel Fred D. Thompson, a scourge of moonshiners as a federal prosecutor in Tennessee...
...vote on the recommit motion of Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, followed an hour of debate during which numerous Faculty members cited their objections to the proposed schedule...