Washington cover-up

by Clark R. Mollenhoff

WASHINGTON COVER-UP

WASHINGTON
COVER-UP

Clark R. Mollenhoff

DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
1962

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 62-13288
COPYRIGHT © 1962 BY CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I	Secrecy Solves No Problems	[9]
CHAPTER II	The First Century	[21]
CHAPTER III	Teapot Dome to the Tax Scandals	[30]
CHAPTER IV	Army-McCarthy—A Claim of Secrecy Unlimited	[41]
CHAPTER V	Another Blow at Senator Joe	[55]
CHAPTER VI	Secrecy Fix on Dixon and Yates	[60]
CHAPTER VII	Congress Becomes Concerned	[79]
CHAPTER VIII	Secrecy Hides the Security Bunglers	[86]
CHAPTER IX	Secrecy Curtain on Iron Curtain Deals	[95]
CHAPTER X	Pressing a Point with Ike	[106]
CHAPTER XI	Keeping the Professor in the Dark	[114]
CHAPTER XII	Ike’s Lawyer and the Law	[129]
CHAPTER XIII	Muzzling the Public’s Watchdog	[143]
CHAPTER XIV	Hiding the Laos Mess	[153]
CHAPTER XV	Defiance to the End, Above the Law	[169]
CHAPTER XVI	Kennedy Makes a Wobbly Start	[177]
CHAPTER XVII	A Pending Problem for JFK	[190]
CHAPTER XVIII	A Solution	[201]
APPENDIX A	Letter from President Eisenhower to the Secretary of Defense	[210]
APPENDIX B	Letters Regarding the Presidential Letter of May 17, 1954	[222]
APPENDIX C	Correspondence on the Right of Access to Information by the General Accounting Office	[224]
APPENDIX D	Letter from President Kennedy to the Secretary of Defense	[236]
APPENDIX E	Executive Privilege Correspondence between President Kennedy and Congressman John E. Moss	[237]

WASHINGTON COVER-UP

CHAPTER I
Secrecy Solves No Problems

No single factor is more important to the strength of our democracy than the free flow of accurate information about the government’s operations. The citizen in a democracy must know what his government is doing, or he will lack the soundest basis for judging the candidates and the platforms of our political parties.