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’s allegations against British intelligence, and J. Edgar Nichols reported H.’s Hitler assassination scheme. Former agents John Holtzman, Duane Traynor, and Norval Wills, and attorney Lloyd Cutler, discussed the Nazi saboteurs. Key among Pearl Harbor sources were And I Was There, by Edwin Layton, Roger Pineau, and John Costello, NY, William Morrow, 1985, and Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement, by Henry Clausen and Bruce Lee, NY, Crown, 1992, Dec. 7–12 correspondence at FDRL, John A. Burns Oral History Project, Univ. of Hawaii, and H. phone and office logs showing that H. was on vacation when asked to testify. Eight Spies Against America, by George Dasch, NY, Robert McBride, 1959, and the Atlanta Constitution, Jul. 4–6, 1980 contain essential information on the Nazi saboteurs.

Chapter 14

Cartha DeLoach supplied the story about H. mimicking Eleanor Roosevelt, G. Gordon Liddy recalled H. describing her as dangerous, and Edna Daulyton the encounter in the hotel. Trude Lash spoke about her husband Joseph and Mrs Roosevelt, and Bernard Fensterwald reported the comments of Col. Roger Pierce on the alleged sex recording. Dr Beatrice Berle described ‘the collapse of H. s relations with Pres. Roosevelt. The H. ‘hoot owl’ comment is from a notation, Dec. 1958, cited in WP, Jun. 6, 1982. FDR, by Ted Morgan, and Eleanor Roosevelt, I, by Blanche Wiesen Cook, NY, Viking, 1992, were vital resources. The H./Eleanor Roosevelt correspondence are in FBI file 62–62–735. FDRL Archivist Raymond Teichman confirmed the absence of records of H./FDR contacts late in the presidency.

Chapter 15

The Steelman anecdote was told by former agent Curtis Lynum. General William Quinn described H.’s check on the remnants of the OSS, and former CIA Director Richard Helms discussed H.’s antipathy to CIA. I drew on Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman, and Dear Bess: Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, ed. Robert Ferrell, and Truman, by David McCullough, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1992. The James Angleton comments are from IC 2, pp. 67ff.

Chapter 16

Dr Edward Elson was interviewed. Alger Hiss’ attorney Cal Barksdale spoke about the Hiss case on behalf of his client, and Stephen Salant and William Reuben were also interviewed. Robert Morgenthau discussed his father’s view of Harry White, and Robert McGaughey described Mundt’s access to Hiss files. David Garrow supplied notes of his interview with Charles Brennan, and Truman’s ‘Gestapo’ comment came from a George Elsey note, May 2, 1947, from the George Elsey Papers, HSTL. Dangerous Dossiers, by Herbert Mitgang, and Alien Ink, by Natalie Robins (see Bibliography) were main sources on FBI meddling with writers and artists. Charlie Chaplin’s FBI file is number 96100-127090. ‘Ghost of a Typewriter,’ by Fred Cook, Nation, May 12, 1962, and ‘Forgery by Typewriter,’ by Gil Green, Nation, Nov. 10, 1984, were useful. Prof. Herbert Parmet kindly supplied his 1988 interview of Richard Nixon. The 2007 symposium was reported by AP on Apr. 5, 2007. Information on Thomas Dewey came from the Dewey folder, Nichols OC, FBI 62–116758.

Chapter 17

Professor Howard Higman, of the Univ. of Colorado, kindly obtained his FBI file on my behalf. Prof. John Murphy analysed it, and Marilyn Van Derbur was interviewed. John Lowenthal, Al Bernstein, Telford Taylor, and Joseph Rauh discussed H.’s attack on Max Lowenthal. The ‘bad news’ report to Truman is covered by an unsigned memo, Aug. 20, Rosen to Ladd, Aug. 28, and Powers to H., Aug. 28, 1953, HSF5. Merle Miller’s assistant Carol Hanley corresponded with the author. Sen. Hickenlooper’s involvement in the Lowenthal affair is at CR, Nov. 27, 1950, Hickenlooper Papers, HHL, and see CR, Jan. 17, 1966. Truman’s part in the matter is reflected in H. to Admiral Souers, Jul. 20, HT to Lowenthal, Jul. 25, Aug. 2, Lowenthal to HT, Jul. 31, 1950, Pres. Sec.’s files, HSTL.

Chapter 18

Guy Hottel, Donald Surine, Walter Trohan, and Thomas Reeves, discussed H.’s relationship with Sen. McCarthy. Barbara Coffman Burns reported H.’s hosting of a Nixon fundraiser. Virginia Murchison Linthicum,