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Taking them in order the first thing on the docket is the NCAA conference out in Dallas. There were two noticeable outgrowths of this meeting, the abolishment of the sanity code and the ruling against television. The decisions are already history, but for a fuller explanation we dropped over to the H.A.A. offices the other day to gather the report of Harvard's representative, the honorable William J. Bingham...
...Well, Mr. Bingham, it looks like they've finally gotten rid of the sanity code," we said...
...Chiefs of Staff from Major General Charles Willoughby, General MacArthur's intelligence chief. The messages gave exact figures on the strength of Chinese troops in Korea, and, wrote Pearson, the figures were much smaller than those publicly released by MacArthur. Charged McCarthy: an enemy who had both the coded and decoded Willoughby messages could break the U.S. code...
Pearson promptly retorted that he had been assured by the Pentagon that no security was involved in the messages, and that, anyhow, he had changed enough words and dates to protect the code...
...satisfied, McCarthy fired off a list of questions to Army Secretary Frank Pace. Was it enough, as Pearson claimed it was, to change a few words to protect the U.S. code? Had the Pentagon cleared the messages for publication, and if not, how had Pearson gotten them? Pace replied that the messages were classified material, and that the Army had not approved them for publication. But for technical reasons, Pace wrote, "cryptographic security has not been violated." Nevertheless, the Army had started a special investigation to find out how Pearson got the messages (six days before McCarthy had raised...