Word: supersecret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of this meant that Joe McCarthy was on the skids, or even groggy. In the midst of the fight over Matthews, in fact, he set the Administration's teeth on edge with a diversionary attack in another direction; he implied a threat to investigate Communism in the supersecret Central Intelligence Agency. Though bloodied, especially by the news to Wisconsin voters that the President was willing to speak out against his patronage of Matthews, Joe was still swinging as the bell ended his worst round...
...most precious, and most damning, piece of information came in 1945 from Ethel's younger brother David Greenglass, then employed as a machinist in the supersecret atomic bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. Ethel had used older-sister cajolery, and Julius had given money ("Money is no object," Julius had said, explaining that it came from "friends") to persuade David and his confused wife Ruth to join the treasonable conspiracy. Later, Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining...
...closets, the 83rd Congress can be expected to make a careful inspection of the skeletons left behind by the Truman Administration. Investigating committees will continue to dig at Communism and corruption in Government. Conduct of the Korean war (including the ammunition shortage) and administration of the supersecret Central Intelligence Agency are other likely prospects for probing. More than one committee will be anxious to get a look at the administrative records Harry Truman has kept out of the range of congressional eyes...
ATOMIC WEAPONS: Still supersecret, but Wilson reported "striking advances." Said he: "Atomic bombs considerably improved over those used in World War II are being produced on an industrial basis...
...final settlement of the Korean war. It had not been taken up with him, said the President. General MacArthur was making a broadcast asking the Koreans to surrender . . . At the mention of the broadcast, the presidential staff gasped in unison; the surrender speech was still two days off and supersecret. Hurriedly, Harry Truman grabbed for the ball. The newsmen would have to keep the matter of the surrender terms off the record, said he, until MacArthur delivered his speech, which he did at week's end (see WAR IN ASIA...