Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first warning that Harry Dexter White and other Government employees were assisting a Communist espionage ring was sent to the White House on Nov. 8, 1945 by FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Marked "top secret." the report was sent by special messenger to Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan...
...reported, the contact man made trips to Washington, D.C. once every two weeks, and would pick up on each occasion an average of 40 rolls of 35-mm. film." He concluded his letter: "An investigation of this matter is being pushed vigorously, but I thought the President and you [Vaughan] would be interested in the foregoing information immediately...
...second FBI report went to the White House. It contained further details and named more spies. A third report, concentrating on White with still more detail, was sent to the White House on Feb. 4, 1946. In his letter accompanying that report, Hoover observed that both Truman and Vaughan had "expressed interest" in the subject, indicating that the earlier reports had been noticed and considered...
...then ran a detailed investigation of White. This made White's espionage activities an "established fact," Brownell said. A second report went to the White House (again to Vaughan...
...Attorney General retorted by publishing the entire distribution list of the first FBI report, as recorded in his department's files. On Dec. 4, 1945: General Vaughan (marked for the President's attention), Attorney General Tom Clark, Secretary of State James Brynes; on Dec. 7: Navy Secretary (later Defense Secretary) James Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden; on Feb. 20, 1946: the President's Chief of Staff, Fleet Admiral William Leahy; on Feb. 26: War Department G-2 (later Chief of Air Staff) Lieut. General Hoyt Vandenberg; on March 5: Treasury Secretary (later U.S. Chief Justice...