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Chairman Otis Pike was piqued. His House Select Committee on Intelligence had subpoenaed an internal State Department memo, and Secretary Henry Kissinger had refused to hand it over. Convinced that the Secretary was covering up, Pike pressed his committee to cite Kissinger for contempt of Congress...
...Ramsey MacDonald, who was Prime Minister at the time, claimed that he had not been consulted in the matter and had not acquiesced in the decision. This outraged the professional civil servants who play a much more important role in Whitehall than in Washington. The Cabinet Secretary circulated a memo around government offices in which MacDonald's assertion was cut to ribbons. In Crossman's analysis, "MacDonald was forced to make a partial withdrawal which led to the fall of the Government...
Secret Yen. But the military is only one of Pike's many interests. Says an official biographical memo he wrote about himself: "He can fly a plane, navigate a boat, play a piano (or a ukulele) . . . swing an ax, sing a song . . ." The son of a Republican Long Island banker, Pike grew to admire Franklin Roosevelt during the New Deal and joined the Democratic Party at 21. A Princeton graduate who finished Columbia Law School in 1948, Pike was first elected to Congress from his conservative Long Island district in 1960 ("I've always been surrounded on three...
Phony Letters. The trail from CIA to IRS was marked by a once secret CIA memo unearthed by Church. It related how in 1967 a CIA official had warned IRS that the radical magazine Ramparts was planning to publish articles critical of the CIA and the whole Lyndon Johnson Administration. The CIA memo urged that "the corporate tax returns of Ramparts, Inc., be examined [by IRS] and that any leads to possible financial supporters be followed up by an examination of their individual tax returns...
...scholar, Toumanoff is Olympian in a bureaucratic way. His parents were Russian nobles who left the country in 1919, and his father fought in the White army against the Bolsheviks. He is able to tick off his accomplishments in an oh-by-the-way manner: author of the SALT memo, an originator of the ban on nuclear arms in space, and the author of Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson's appeal to the Soviets, in 1967, for a collaborative effort" to solve "world problems of food, population and energy," as he puts...