AS PEGLER SEES IT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100070085-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: February 23, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

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An 'Award' NareO."After
ate AR.O.b. -potter. son
ECONDUTENANT DA DR bGE 1Vt 1t A DNE re-
0 ceiitly wan 4i "award":nmed After i e fate _ Ptak
who threw in with the R( o 'd elt cb' 1Yi'??t"Pentagon
CPYRGHT
N JULY, 1942, MILD PERXINS, a weird: character in
his oWn right, then serving under Bubbldhead W al.
lace in the fantastic circle called the Board of Economic
Warfare,' wrote Patterson:'for iriforz cation on Silver-
master.
The Army ha t complete Information but Patterson
replied that Pentagon intelligence was "fully- satisfied
War`'Departnent "the copy of the report in your files,"
You kitow what happened once Patterson got his hands
q that, don't yod?
Same thing that happened to the report of Col.
The .~.ropliies were? 9n. Arniy .45, John Van Vliet; of the American Army, w-ho was flown
$250 in m ,t _ey and" , certificate. 2 back frprp Germany right after the war to write his
Gen.- Matt#'tidgway;e Chief of :.,observa'tions' and' his charge that the Russians had
Staff; 'congratulated;,, alone and slaughtered in one.batch at Katyn Forest 4,243 Polish
Robert T. Stevens; the Army Secre- J. army officers and scholars of. their cultjral aristocracy
tary, presented the prizes, out of a total of 15,400 who were shot in cold blood in
It was initiated, by Julius Ochs big batches at Katyn and elsewhere.
Adler, &eneraitm.ailager of .the New That report was destroyeZL'for the stale
purpose of
r
York times and a politician of, the deceiving the American people so that they' would not
partisanpersuasion to which Pat- revolt against the Democratic Administration for con-
terson switched without due notice tinuing to betray this and other nations to Soviet Russia.
jro thost who had trusted him_ as a k
Repulllican serving his country but
not the Roosevelt machine.
Patterson had a respectable
combat record in the'.; first 'War
which: he nullified by his cotnplicity
WESTBROOK FIGLES in the skulduggery at the Petite--
gon starting under Henry L. Stimsoii, who w.as planed
as Secretary of War by- Felix Frankfurter for -his own
ATTERSON WAS S CRETARY ',jr WAR . at that
time. Maj. Gen. Clayton Bissell;"hadsucceeded
Strong as Chief of Intelligence and'Assistant Chief of
Staff. He tried to convince, a Congressior}al committee'
under Ray Madden, of Indiana, ;that the report :got lost
on its way to tl}e State Department.
This committee unanimously found that the Soviet
NKVD did` massacre all"those h?lpless `prisoners and
purposes which never are publicly disclosed. Hepecame 3 repudiated the verdict of the Russians in the Nuremberg
Secretary in 1945 and served until JW-,.16 1947He was trials which tondemned to death ce{tain Germans who
killed in an airplane wreck in Janua952. had surrendered as s'bldiers to Dwight D., Eisenhower
In the Pentagon, Patterson Iliad tot-his press agent J while Clay was his deputy.
or, in his own pretentious term, po1icylzonsuttant, Horse- _., Furthermo Ebb Jackson, tkhe .chgap stooge who
track Herbert - Swope, whole ;principal claim to, fame, left the Supreiz a pp, Court to take part in a'kangaroo court
reiterated down to this day, was has hitch s bkutive: in Nuremberg, testified that if this body of solemn
editor of the New Yotk WQr which croaked 24. years'_I lynchers had had adequate information of Russia's
r.. t
ago, guilt,. "we would not have consented to the charge
A NOTHEI ' OFHIS CCILLEAG; ES. WAS'. LIJCIUS., against the Nazis."
t 'CLAY, conim'ander `of. irt'he Ai#he~icaii~ Army of But did Jackson then crusade to atone for the
-Occup"atiori. A'dlai Steyensdri-was anQtheiJ crime in the Pentagon? He- did not. He kept a still
They were an impuceiif;rgang acid, those who live tongue In his face.
on still are. Swope had th'e Suprenie'g`alfto'set.himself up j~ISSELL ADMITTED THAT HE WAS conscious of
not-.long ago as an arbiter of no. lity in' decorating B "great possibilities of embarra?sment" to Roose-
Egbert Murrow, the political pleader for Robert Oppen- velt's reputation. and Truman's reign, so he ordered the
heimer, for valuable services, dotbtiess to "humanity" report secret.
or "brotherhood," at Freedom House. The committee was "dismayed to learn that the
This is the boiler room of a'whole apparatus of Major General was considering thepolitical significance
socio-political pressure groups, founded in honor of of the report" instead of its military importance.
an appropriate hero, the late Willkie. Patterson `was a Three other generals, all colleagues arid subordinates
founding father of this hive which, in seasons past, has
denoted its patriotic and ethical standard..by adorning'
Sonfe Americans, are intimidated by, the very
audacity of men bearing the title ofgeneral, judge and,
Rockefeller Foundation isl commingled with .,tie
flower of the cult. The names of 'the. ulles IBM
Paul Roffman add dur.latir ACA, the
. or oun a 10.
all occur in the clippings tracing peculiar but generally'
consistent rolitical innovations,, {
Patterson' laid it on tie. line when he was alive and
mere qualms can't erase anthing writ ly the moving
finger then.. He refused to act against Nathan Gregory
Silvermast r, who had ~i a de ou ced as o t
by EI%abe ---v c1 0r teI'ease 1UOU1O 4
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of Patterson and the clique admitted that a pro-Soviet
pool in the Pentagon "found explanations for almost
everything the Soviet did."
Another time, Patterson said a man who was 49 per
cent. loyal to Russia but 51 per cent loyal to the United
States was a, patriot in his view. He said all he knew
about the notorious New York Communist military
force in Spain called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was
that they were good fighters.
Lieut. Malone can 'have proof of all this for the
asking and he need only go to the files to learn that the
same Patterson testified for Alger Hiss.
If he still wants that. trash and the pieces of silver
after that, the poor kid will have only a secondary
blameAft aple
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