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Army Reports McCarthy Aide Tried To Influence Decision On Treatment Of David Schine
Or JOHN CHADWICK
WASHINGTON ÜB-Au Army
report yktum Chairman McCar
thy (R-Wfc) and Ct*ef Counsel Roy
Coin of Senate Investigations
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David Schine, a committee con
sultant.
Schine was inducted as a priv
ate after his application for a
commission, backed, so the report
said, by McCarthy and Cohn, was
turned down.
And, said the Army report.
Cohn declared that Secretary of
the Army Robert T. Stevens would
be “through” and the Army
wrecked if Schine were given
overseas duty after completing his
basic training.
Although McCarthy was quoted
as telling officials repeatedly to
treat Schine as it would any other
private, he was also pictured as
trying to have the Army assign
him to the New York area. The
senator was quoted as suggesting
that Schine be assigned to check
West Point textbook* for subver
sive material.
The Army report, a sort of
diary, covered the period from
mid-July at last year to Feb. 16,
1954, thus coming up to the eve
of a fierce conflict between Mc-
Carthy and Stevens over another
issue.
This was McCarthy’s question
ing of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwick
er at a one-man closed hearing
Feb. 18. Stevens said Zwicker was
humiliated and abused. In the en
suing uproar President Eisenhow
er denounced “disregard for fair
play” in congressional probes.
Before the Army report on the
Schine matter was made available
by Senate sources last night,
Republican spokesmen, asking not
to be quoted, had said they hoped
to induce McCarthy to ease Cohn
out before Democratic members
of the investigations subcommittee
could make an issue of the dis
closures.
McCarthy, however, eand Cohn
was “pretty much indispensable”
to the subcommittee. And he said,
before the contents of the report
became available, that he had sug
gested in vain to Secretary of De
fense Wilson and Asst. Secretary
Fred A. Seaton that they “get
both sides” and not take only the
version of John G. Adams, coun
sel to the Army, on the Schine
case.
The senator aaid he plans to
make public all material on the
matter in his subcommittee’s files.
Schine is a wealthy New Yorker,
who served the subcommittee
without pay.
Cohn and Schine became contro
versial figures last spring when
McCarthy sent them bath to Eu
rope to investigate U.S. informa
tion and propaganda, agencies
abroad.
Sen. Monroney (D-Okla) ac
cused them of acting like “Key
stone Hops” an the trip. He en
gaged McCarthy in a hot Senate
debate a* to whether they had
hurt U.S. prestige abroad with
what he termed “their antic*.”
The Army report said that fast
Dec. 17, at a talk between McCar
thy, Cohn and Adams, “Mr. Cohn
was vituperative in his language”
while declaring he had a commit
ment that Schine be assigned to
New York City. It said McCarthy
“remained silent.”
Hien the party continued uptown
in a taxi, it continued, and Me
| Carthy “again suggested Ibe pos
sibility that the secretary ihould
put Pvt. Schine on duty at head
quarters, Ist Army, with a® as
signment to examine the textbooks
at West Point ... as to whether
they contained anything of a sub
versive nature.”
The Army report quoted Cohn
on several occasions as predicting
trouble for the Army unless Schine
received special treatment.
And it said that a meeting Jan.
22 in McCarthy’s apartment, the
senator several times said be did
not see why the Army could not
give Schine some assignment in
New York and forget about the
whole matter.
The report continued:
“Sen. McCarthy pointed out that
the Army was walking into a long
range fight with Mr. Cohn and
that even if Mr. Cohn resigned
or was fired from the committee
staff, he would carry on hi* cam
paign against the Army thereafter
from outside Washington.
“Sen. McCarthy suggested that
Mr. Cohn, through the medium of
connections with various news
paper elements, would begin get
ting published article* alleging
favoritism on the part of the Army
in numerous other cases.”
The report seed that Cohn was
told last October that the national
interest required that Schine be
given no preferential treatment,
and ft added:
“Mr. Cohn replied that If the
national interest was what tha
Army wanted he’d give it a little
and then proceeded to outtia* bow
he would expose the Army in its
worst light and show the country
how shabbily it wa* being run.”
Last Dec. 22, the report aaid,
Stevens received a letter from Mc-
Carthy to the effect that “the com
mittee had no further interest in
Pvt. Schine and that he hoped
that Pvt. Schine would be treated
the same a* other soldiers.”
But about the same time, it con
tinued, Adam* received s tele
phone call from Cohn stating
“that he would teach Mr. Adams
what it meant to go over has
head.”
The report quoted McCarthy a
telling the Amy on a number of
occasions early in tha conversa
tions about Schine to treat Mm as
it would any other private.
Last October, the report said,
McCarthy told Stevens and Adams
that “Schine was a nuisance”
but that he did not want this
appraisal to get back to Cofan.
It also quoted the senator as say
ing that Schine “was of no help
to the committee but was inter
ested in photographers and getting
his pictures in the paper, and that
things had reached the point
where Mr. Schine was a pest.”
The report sail that after
Adame talked with Coin Jan.
13-14, he told Secretary Stevens
it would be advisable for him to
talk directly with McCarthy.
Following up thi* suggestion,
the report continued, Stevens had
a two-hour lunch with McCarthy
and explained the type of duty in
prospect for Schine and the length
of time he was likely to be at
Camp Gordon, Ga.
“On about four or five occa
sions,” the report said, McCarthy
brought up the question of an as
signment for Schine in the New
York City area at the conclusion
of his tour of duty at Camp
Gordon.
It said Stevens made no com
mitment.
The lest entry m the Army
report toM of a telephone conver
sation between Adams and Fran
* Carr, staff director of the Mc-
Carthy subcommittee.
This related that Carr asked
Adam# that the Army produce a*
witnesses for a public hearing in
New York City Gen. Zwicker,
Kilmer, N.J., and other officers.
“Adams voiced the Army’s con
cern over this development.” the
report said, “and compared it to
the Ft. Monmouth situation where
the committee had called in gen
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