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Perle, who called the charges "laughable," said he has never joined an organization further left than the American Civil Liberties Union. "Like Jackson, I have been somewhat to the left on domestic issues, but I have always been hostile to Communism." Fosdick was even more perplexed...
...known Rocky for more than 50 years and was never given a hint of his suspicions. Her father, the famed Protestant preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, had been the Rockefeller family's minister in New York, officiating at Nelson's first marriage and at the funeral of his father, John...
...Apology. Fosdick, 63, is a foreign policy expert whose career spans decades. Rocky accused her of working as an assistant to Alger Hiss at the 1945 San Francisco conference that drew up the United Nations Charter; Fosdick contended that she had been chief assistant to the secretary general of the U.S. delegation-and that Rocky knew it. Before she joined Jackson in 1955, she was a member of the State Department's policy planning staff under George Kennan and Paul Nitze...
Some U.S. intelligence sources, TIME has learned, incline toward a different theory. They suggest that the Soviets may be trying to discredit two enemies-Fosdick and Perle (not to mention Jackson)-by passing false information to Kissinger, who then relayed it to Rockefeller. That may credit the Soviets with more precise targeting capability than they deserve...
Whatever the motivation, the episode reflects no credit on Rocky. Not since the worst days of Joe McCarthy has a prominent Washington official taken such a wild swing at other public servants. "It is amazing how quickly the atmosphere of the 1950s can return," mused Fosdick. "All of a sudden, here I am, answering call after call from the press, asking if I or anyone else on the staff is a Communist. And here we are trying to defend ourselves. But it's not up to us to disprove these charges. It's up to Rockefeller to substantiate...