Show Round Merry Intelligence Post Should Go to toJ o J J. J Edgar Hoover I B Its y Drew r Pearson W ZV v A SH I N G T TON TON-It O 0 N N-It N It l isn't mt generally known mown but Admiral Roscoe chief of the duper super spy agency central central central cen cen- intelligence had asked for sea duty well before the Korean outbreak The admiral has done a better job of or foreign intelligence than congress gives him credit for but he has never been particularly particularly particularly par par- happy in the job and would like to get back to a battleship was former commander of the battleship Missouri comes from the state of Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- soud and and was picked by Truman personally personally personally per per- for the difficult intelligence as as- Faced with the admirals admiral's insistence that he wants to be transferred President Truman Truman Tru Tru- man has n asked ked General Bedell Smith former former former for for- mer U. U S. S ambassador to Moscow to take tak takeover over o central intelligence Smith so O o far Car has refused on the ground that he recently underwent an ulcer operation General Smith knows the Russians and would be better than most military men for this assignment However congress in creating central intelligence did not intend that it be run by the military Past experience experience ex ex- ex- ex has shown that civilians are better qualified to direct espionage detective agencies Therefore some Bome of of the presidents president's friends are urging that he appoint J J. J Edgar Hoover to this important post Hoover is one of the best organizers In government has built up one of the best- best trained investigation bureaus the world has ever seen and has it in such good shape that it could operate under a new director On the other hand getting intelligence on a prospective enemy is important all-important in this day when a suitcase smuggled smug Into an American harbor or the flight ht of one plane across the arctic or the secret massing massing massing mass mass- ing of troops on a certain border could cripple the United Slates States indefinitely That i is why a man of oC Hoovers genius ought to be used to head an agency which which- today has become even more more important than the F FBI B I. I n B r e c u bs' s t e r Wire Tapping Wire Tapping ir Tappin Interesting new evidence e gradually accumulates in the Justice departments department's belated probe of Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Brewster's Brewster s 's eavesdropping on Howard Hughes the west coa coast t aviation mogul It will be recalled that three years ago when the G GO GOP 0 P senator from Maine was chairman of the senate war investigating committee he staged a snatching headline-snatching I investigation of the rather fetched far-fetched charge that Hughes had spent government money extravagantly in bu building a 8 giant J I 1 amphibious sous transport plane J It turned out however that Brewster had something of or an axe to grind for his good old friends of Pan American World Airways and had talked to lo Hughes earlier about an amalgamation between Pan Am Amand Amand and his Trans Trans Trans- World Airlines s. s It also turned out two years later that Brewster had used the metropolitan police police police po po- po- po lice of the District of Columbia to tap Howard Howard Howard How How- ard Hughes' Hughes phone and put a microphone in his room In fact Police Chief Robert Barrett submitted a report to the Justice department almost one year ago o that one of his officers LL Li Joseph Shimon had hadi been tapping wires for Senator investigating ng committee 4 Wire tapping of course is barred by section of or the federal communications communication act and is a criminal offense Paid l aill hy by Brewster's Office Office However However the Justice department after letting the wire tapping report gather g-ather dust for nine months finally got around to ordering an F FBI B I investigation And the most interesting interesting interest interest- ing thing the F FBI B I has turned up is a 4 statement made to a man G-man b by Lieutenant Shimon that Senator Brewster's secretary paid him for his wire 1 I Another interesting point is that a close friend of Brewster's William Power Maloney Maloney Ma- Ma loney Joney has been retained as defense counsel for Lieutenant Shimon For upon Shimon's testimony depends whether or not Senator Brewster becomes involved in a 8 criminal proceeding So far Shimon has stuck to a R very cry careful story He admits tapping Howard Hughes' Hughes phone but he does docs not admit giving any information about the wiretapping wiretapping wiretapping wire wire- tapping to the senator This i is s aimed to let Brewster off the hook The senator from Maine In turn has haa figured out an interesting excuse for his association with the thc police lieutenant Friends were worried over threats of physical physical physical phys phys- ical violence he says so Shimon was hired to protect him In the course of protecting protecting protecting pro pro- him the police lieutenant tapped the wire of Howard Hughes the Hughes the last person person person per per- son incidentally who would have attacked Brewster personally It sounds awfully fetched far-fetched but believe believe be be- lieve it or not not that's the alibi |