McCARTHY AGAIN WANTS USE OF LIE DETECTORS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27366, 3 June 1954, Page 11

McCARTHY AGAIN WANTS USE OF LIE DETECTORS

(Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 1. Senator Joseph McCarthy proposed today that everyone involved in the fiery Army-McCarthy dispute be given lie detector tests.

He said he would be the first to agree to submit.

Senator McCarthy made the demand when the Army’s special counsel. Mr Joseph Welch, said that he had grave suspicions about the authenticity of 11 memoranda which were allegedly prepared by Senator McCarthy and his assistants on the Senate Investigations Sub-committee. They form the backbone of the McCarthy case against the Army. Mr Welch made the assertion during the questioning of Senator McCarthy’s secretary. Mrs Mary Driscoll. He said he was dissatisfied with Mrs Driscoll's answers to a series of questions aimed at determining how the memoranda were prepared. Mr Welch urged the sub-committee to turn the documents over to an ex-

pert to determine whether they were genuine. Senatpr McCarthy, in a fiery outburst, said Mr Welch had accused Mrs Driscoll of perjury. He then offered his lie detector proposal as “a scientific way” to determine who was telling the truth in the hearings. Testimony contradicting that of the Army witnesses was given today by Mr Roy Cohn. Under cross-examination by the special counsel, Mr Ray Jenkins, Mr Cohn, the sub-committee’s counsel, said that Mr John Adams, the Army counsellor, was “quite mistaken” in testifying that he (Cohn) exerted extreme pressures to obtain a New York assignment for Private G. David

Schine, a former sub-committee consultant. Mr Cohn denied he ever threatened to “wreck the Army” and bring about the dismissal of Mr Robert Stevens, the Secretary of the Army, if Private Schine was sent overseas. • He testified that he had no recollection of ever saying Mr Stevens had “doublecrossed” Senator McCarthy by saying at a press conference on November 13 that he knew of no current espionage at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Mr Cohn today gave the sub-commit-tee a batch of papers which he said reflected part of the work done by 1 Private Schine for the sub-committee after he entered the Army. The papers : had been requested by the sub-com- > mittee.