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==Amerasia scandal==

==Amerasia scandal==

FBI surveillance recorded that Service then met with the secret [[Communist]]<ref>Philip Jaffe, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YTUPGQAACAAJ The Amerasia Case from 1945 to the Present]'' (New York: Philip J. Jaffe, 1979), p. 1</ref> [[Philip Jaffe]] on April 19, 1945 at D.C.'s Statler Hotel, reporting: "Service, according to the microphone surveillance, apparently gave Jaffe a document which dealt with matters the Chinese had furnished to the United States government in confidence."<ref>Report of the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees, 1950, Vol. 2, appendix, p. 2051</ref> Among the documents Service gave Jaffe was a report by his and [[Solomon Adler|Adler]]'s other [[USSR|Soviet]] agent housemate, Chi, about which Service warned Jaffe that his source would "get his neck pretty badly wrung"<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0807822456, p. 60</ref> if it got out. The surveillance also caught Service admitting to Jaffe, "what I said about the military plans is, of course, very secret."<ref>Subcommittee on S. Res. 231, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 81st Cong., 2d Sess.,  [http://ia341011.us.archive.org/1/items/statedepartmente195001unit/statedepartmente195001unit.pdf State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation, Vol. 1], (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), p. 1404 (PDF p. 1420)</ref> According to Emory University History Professor Harvey Klehr, co-author of ''The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism'':

FBI surveillance recorded that Service then met with the secret [[Communist]]<ref>Philip Jaffe, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YTUPGQAACAAJ The Amerasia Case from 1945 to the Present]'' (New York: Philip J. Jaffe, 1979), p. 1</ref> [[Philip Jaffe]] on April 19, 1945 at D.C.'s Statler Hotel, reporting: "Service, according to the microphone surveillance, apparently gave Jaffe a document which dealt with matters the Chinese had furnished to the United States government in confidence."<ref>Report of the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees, 1950, Vol. 2, appendix, p. 2051</ref> Among the documents Service gave Jaffe was a report by his and Adler's other [[USSR|Soviet]] agent housemate, Chi, about which Service warned Jaffe that his source would "get his neck pretty badly wrung"<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0807822456, p. 60</ref> if it got out. The surveillance also caught Service admitting to Jaffe, "what I said about the military plans is, of course, very secret."<ref>Subcommittee on S. Res. 231, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 81st Cong., 2d Sess.,  [http://ia341011.us.archive.org/1/items/statedepartmente195001unit/statedepartmente195001unit.pdf State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation, Vol. 1], (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), p. 1404 (PDF p. 1420)</ref> According to Emory University History Professor Harvey Klehr, co-author of ''The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism'':

{{cquote|[One] wiretap picked up a conversation in which Jaffe informed Service that Chi Ch’ao-ting, his upstairs neighbor in Chungking, was Jaffe’s cousin, and that Jaffe was anxious to keep that information secret. Even though Service was well aware of Jaffe’s pro-Communist leanings, he agreed not to let anyone know&mdash;including his State Department superiors....<ref>Harvey Klehr, "[http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=OWY5Mzg5NzY2ZWI0ZmJlZTdiMjJmY2Y1OTdhZWM3NWU= Secret Service]," ''National Review'', December 7, 2009</ref>}}

{{cquote|[One] wiretap picked up a conversation in which Jaffe informed Service that Chi Ch’ao-ting, his upstairs neighbor in Chungking, was Jaffe’s cousin, and that Jaffe was anxious to keep that information secret. Even though Service was well aware of Jaffe’s pro-Communist leanings, he agreed not to let anyone know&mdash;including his State Department superiors....<ref>Harvey Klehr, "[http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=OWY5Mzg5NzY2ZWI0ZmJlZTdiMjJmY2Y1OTdhZWM3NWU= Secret Service]," ''National Review'', December 7, 2009</ref>}}

[[OSS]] investigators broke into in the offices of ''[[Amerasia]]'', finding hundreds of government documents, many labeled "secret," "top secret," or "confidential."<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 131</ref> Among the papers seized were "a hundred-odd items from the pen of John Stewart Service";<ref>Henry M. Adams, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/14_3-4/adams2.pdf The Betrayal of Asia]," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 1970), pp. 338-340</ref> Service was arrested as a suspect. In the wake of the arrests, the Soviet agent [[Lauchlin Currie|Currie]] told New Deal "fixer" [[Thomas Corcoran]] he wanted the charges against Service dropped.<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, p. 168</ref> An FBI wire tap then caught "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_v19/ai_4696995/ Tommy the Cork]"<ref>David McKean, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=RlV3AAAAMAAJ Tommy the Cork: Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to Reagan]'' (Steerforth Press, 2004) ISBN 1586420682</ref> trying to "throw a monkey wrench into the ''Amerasia'' prosecution"<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 112</ref> in the form of a "political fix."<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 125</ref> One FBI memorandum, under the heading "Political Manipulations," citing "technical surveillance on the offices of Thomas J. Corcoran," reported:

[[OSS]] investigators broke into in the offices of ''[[Amerasia]]'', finding hundreds of government documents, many labeled "secret," "top secret," or "confidential."<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 131</ref> Among the papers seized were "a hundred-odd items from the pen of John Stewart Service";<ref>Henry M. Adams, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/14_3-4/adams2.pdf The Betrayal of Asia]," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 1970), pp. 338-340</ref> Service was arrested as a suspect. In the wake of the arrests, the Soviet agent [[Lauchlin Currie|Currie]] told New Deal "fixer" [[Thomas Corcoran]] he wanted the charges against Service dropped.<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, p. 168</ref> An FBI wire tap then caught "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_v19/ai_4696995/ Tommy the Cork]"<ref>David McKean, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=RlV3AAAAMAAJ Tommy the Cork: Washington's Ultimate Insider from Roosevelt to Reagan]'' (Steerforth Press, 2004) ISBN 1586420682</ref> trying to "throw a monkey wrench into the ''Amerasia'' prosecution"<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 112</ref> in the form of a "political fix."<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 125</ref> One FBI memorandum, under the heading "Political Manipulations," citing "technical surveillance on the offices of Thomas J. Corcoran," reported:

{{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 [[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>

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>