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Although the Church Committee had the power to subpoena government officials, (including high level CIA and State Department officials up through Kissinger), it did not challenge the decision of Ford and Kissinger to prohibit these crucial witnesses from testifying on grounds of "national security...
...agency was not coordinating the movements of funds and weapons between the U.S. and the Chilean opposition. Until all existing documents are examined and all involved government officials including Secretary Kissinger are forced to testify, the truth will not be established. The Church Committee should be forced to subpoena these documents and witnesses, and to take the issue to the courts, if necessary to secure them. Its current report is essentially a coverup, and the committee should not be allowed to expire until it has produced the information for which it was established...
Angry, Ford ordered that Administration witnesses not testify at the committee's hearings. In addition, White House officials excised material they judged sensitive from the subpoenaed documents and delivered the remaining portions to the committee with a letter stipulating that they remain secret. Unanimously backed by his committee, feisty Chairman Otis Pike of New York rejected the deal and threatened to ask a federal court to order Ford to comply fully with the subpoena. Said Democrat Pike: "We have released nothing that jeopardizes national security in any way. The bottom line is that the Congress has the right...
...after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking home a quarter-million a year, but he truly is a crusader." Parkhurst himself lives frugally with his wife (he owns no home) and seems unconcerned about his prodigal spending on exposés and causes: "It doesn't bring back...
...libel case, but he held back the film, partly because he wanted to learn what was on it. Word of Chambers' sensational new revelations quickly reached the House Un-American Activities Committee, before which he had originally accused Hiss. When Committee Member Richard M. Nixon issued a subpoena for any further evidence, Chambers led agents to his Maryland farm and pointed to a hollowed-out pumpkin. Fearful of prowling Hiss investigators, he said, he had put the films in the pumpkin while he was gone for the day. Thus were baptized the famous "pumpkin papers...