WALTER WINCHELL, WHO IS COVERING THE MCCARTHY-ARMY HEARINGS, IN THE NEW YORK MIRROR OF 3 JUNE 1954 STATES:

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 16190550
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: September 12, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2023
• Case Number: F-2020-00509
• Publication Date: June 3, 1954

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Walter Winchell, who is covering the NcCarthy-Army Hearings, in
the New York Mirror of 3 June 1954 states:
"The McCarthy Committee, we learned, is checking the information that
one of the newspapermen mentioned during the hearings is on the CIA payroll
as a consultant."
During the Army investigation the names mentioned were: Joseph and
Stewart Alsop, New York Herald Tribune; Homer Bigart, New York Herald_
Tribune; Al Friendly, Washington Post, and Eurrey Harder, Washington
Arthur Hadley, Newsweek, was mentioned on the radio as having been
listed but his name does not appear in the testimony.
No comment will be our reply to all inquiries.
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Approved for Release: 2023/02/17 CO2763551