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...first brush with the enemy agreed to hold it by specific direction of the Fifth Air Force. Reason: intelligence believed the encounter so fleeting that the enemy still did not realize the Sabre jets' presence . . . On the most crucial point at stake, TIME garbles my testimony by reporting: "Talbert argued that security was violated when [the New York Times' Correspondent Charles] Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped." There weren't any commercial wires. What I swore was that Mr. Grutzner sent his story by commercial wireless...
...stand on General Stratemeyer's recent statement that this is blaming a mistake on a dead man not in a position to reply. Nobody that I know denies somebody in the Pentagon released it, probably due to a snafu' reminiscent of "Who Promoted Peress?" ANSEL EDWARD TALBERT Military and Aviation Editor New York Herald Tribune New York City...
...Reader Talbert stand where he chooses. The facts remain: 1) Air Force headquarters cleared Correspondent Grutzner's story of the Sabre jets, 2) the Department of Defense refused to revoke his accreditation, and 3) thus rewarded him with a clean beat over Correspondent Talbert and other competing newsmen...
...Grutzner sent his Sabre jet story on for clearance by Washington and the Times printed it, after Air, Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg gave his O.K. Talbert argued that security was violated when Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped. Talbert quoted General George Stratemeyer as calling Grutzner's story "one of the greatest security breaches...
Soon the committee found that it was probing not security but a squabble between newsmen. Talbert had been scooped on the story, and after five years it still rankled. In the middle of the argument, Glenn Stackhouse, U.P.'s San Francisco bureau chief, wired the Times that Talbert's charges were "ridiculous. Said Stackhouse: He "grudgingly admired" the Times for prying the story out of the Pentagon while the opposition was sitting on its hands. Since the Communists already knew about the Sabre jets from dogfighting with them, he said, "whole security thing so much hogwash...