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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>
 
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>
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According to Mirsky, Service would later confess that he had given Jaffe “a top-secret document revealing the Nationalist Order of Battle, which showed the exact disposition of the forces facing Mao's troops.”  Service admitted that he knew this might be regarded as treason, but said, "I want to get this off my chest."<ref>Jonathan Mirsky, “[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704398304574598443437286438-lMyQjAxMDA5MDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html In Whose Service?]” ''The Wall Street Journal'', December 20, 2009</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>
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According to Mirsky, Service would later confess that he had given Jaffe “a top-secret document revealing the Nationalist Order of Battle, which showed the exact disposition of the forces facing Mao's troops.”  Service admitted that he knew this might be regarded as treason, but said, "I want to get this off my chest."<ref>Jonathan Mirsky, “[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704398304574598443437286438-lMyQjAxMDA5MDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html In Whose Service?]” ''The Wall Street Journal'', December 20, 2009</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>
    
==PSI investigations==
 
==PSI investigations==
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