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{{cquote|Considerable political pressure and maneuverings were exerted on behalf of Service, involving directly or indirectly Lauchlin Currie, then an Administrative Assistant at the White House; the then Attorney General, [[Tom Clark]]; James McGranery, then Assistant to the Attorney General; James McInerney, then General Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Criminal Division; and Robert Hitchcock, Special Prosecutor for this case."<ref>FBI memorandum: D.M. Ladd to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Re Philip Jacob Jaffe, was., et al, Espionage &ndash; C, May 11, 1950, p. 7 (FBI file: Amerasia, Section 54</ref>}}

{{cquote|Considerable political pressure and maneuverings were exerted on behalf of Service, involving directly or indirectly Lauchlin Currie, then an Administrative Assistant at the White House; the then Attorney General, [[Tom Clark]]; James McGranery, then Assistant to the Attorney General; James McInerney, then General Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Criminal Division; and Robert Hitchcock, Special Prosecutor for this case."<ref>FBI memorandum: D.M. Ladd to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Re Philip Jacob Jaffe, was., et al, Espionage &ndash; C, May 11, 1950, p. 7 (FBI file: Amerasia, Section 54</ref>}}

The FBI surveillance logs in question recorded the Soviet agent [[Laughlin Currie|Currie]] talking to [[Thomas Corcoran|Corcoran]] about Service, telling him, "the important thing is to get him out"; Corcoran telling Service that he had informed Attorney General [[Tom Clark]] "about the understanding we had below about the cutting out of your name"; James McGranery, assistant to the Attorney General, telling Corcoran, "Your man is Service. I got it" (to which Corcoran replies, "Yeah. So that we can cut him out. OK?"); Service telling Corcoran that federal prosecutor Robert Hitchcock told his attorney "we want to have Service cleared"; Corcoran telling Service, "I have a flat deal like that you are going to be cleared"; etc. <ref>[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Recording_Summary-Jaffe-06.10.45-04.19.46.pdf FBI recording summary], May 31, 1950: Philip Jacob Jaffe, June 10, 1945-April 19, 1946 (with cover memorandum, Ladd to Hoover, June 30, 1952)</ref>

The FBI surveillance logs in question recorded the Soviet agent [[Lauchlin Currie|Currie]] talking to [[Thomas Corcoran|Corcoran]] about Service, telling him, "the important thing is to get him out"; Corcoran telling Service that he had informed Attorney General [[Tom Clark]] "about the understanding we had below about the cutting out of your name"; James McGranery, assistant to the Attorney General, telling Corcoran, "Your man is Service. I got it" (to which Corcoran replies, "Yeah. So that we can cut him out. OK?"); Service telling Corcoran that federal prosecutor Robert Hitchcock told his attorney "we want to have Service cleared"; Corcoran telling Service, "I have a flat deal like that you are going to be cleared"; etc. <ref>[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Recording_Summary-Jaffe-06.10.45-04.19.46.pdf FBI recording summary], May 31, 1950: Philip Jacob Jaffe, June 10, 1945-April 19, 1946 (with cover memorandum, Ladd to Hoover, June 30, 1952)</ref>

FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] later wrote, "in the event I had been asked at the time the arrests were made whether I thought we had an airtight case, I would have stated that I thought we had. Further, if I were asked today, I would have to so state."<ref>FBI Director J. Edgar [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Hoover%20to%20Ford%20-%2005.4.50.pdf Hoover to Peyton Ford], Assistant to the Attorney General, re Philip Jacob Jaffe, was., et al., Espionage, May 4, 1950 (FBI file: Amerasia, Section 54)</ref> As [http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/Fried.html Richard M. Fried] admits, "Conservative suspicions of a high-level fix were correct."<ref>Richard M. Fried, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=pVatMuvNTsoC Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective] (Oxford University Press, 1991) ISBN 0195043618, p. 61</ref>

FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] later wrote, "in the event I had been asked at the time the arrests were made whether I thought we had an airtight case, I would have stated that I thought we had. Further, if I were asked today, I would have to so state."<ref>FBI Director J. Edgar [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Hoover%20to%20Ford%20-%2005.4.50.pdf Hoover to Peyton Ford], Assistant to the Attorney General, re Philip Jacob Jaffe, was., et al., Espionage, May 4, 1950 (FBI file: Amerasia, Section 54)</ref> As [http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/Fried.html Richard M. Fried] admits, "Conservative suspicions of a high-level fix were correct."<ref>Richard M. Fried, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=pVatMuvNTsoC Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective] (Oxford University Press, 1991) ISBN 0195043618, p. 61</ref>