Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment by Stephen E. Ambrose

Author:Stephen E. Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-94661-4
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2012-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

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* McCarthy was after William Bundy, a member of the CIA’S Board of National Estimates and Dean Acheson’s son-in-law. Bundy, it seemed, had contributed $400 to the Alger Hiss Defense Fund.

Part Two

THE PRESIDENCY

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

President Eisenhower and the Communist Menace

JUNE 19, 1953. Demonstrators march up and down in front of the White House, their signs pleading with the President to grant executive clemency to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who have been sentenced to death for giving atomic secrets to the Russians.

December 2, 1953. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson calls the President on the telephone to inform him that J. Edgar Hoover has just sent him charges that it is “more likely than not that J. Robert Oppenheimer is a Communist spy.”

January 15, 1954. Senator Mike Mansfield introduces a resolution to create a “Joint Congressional Oversight Committee for the American Clandestine Service.”

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