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Hillenkoetter seeks sea duty as agency shifts
The article notes Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, desires sea duty before the Korean crisis. President Truman contemplates alternate leaders, with Gen. Bedell Smith and J. Edgar Hoover as options. Senate and party members debate tax support for wartime measures and probe Brewster’s eavesdropping ties to Pan American.
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Roscoe Hillentcoetter
Central Intelligence
Congress
Hillenkoetter
Missouri
Truman
Gen
Bedell Smith
U.S
Moscow
Smith
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Arctic
United States
Joint Economic Committee
Ohio
Bob Taft
Walter Huber
Robert
Rich
Pennsylvania
Taft
Huber
Robert Alphonso
Democrats
Justice Department
Brewster
Howard Hughes
GOP
Maine
Senate
Hughes
Pan American World Airways
Pan American
Trans World Airlines
Metropolitan Police
District of Columbia
Robert Barrett
Joseph Shimon
Federal