Sen. Joe McCarthy and Camp Evans

When Even Angels Wept - A Story Without A Hero. By Lately Thomas - 1973

Say "Cheese"    7
"Good Morning, Judge"    14
"To the Shores of Tripoli"    23
How to Win an Election, McCarthy Style    35
A Crisscross of Colors    41
A Badger in the House    47
A Time of Turmoil    50
Diversions of a Senator    61
A Time of Ripening    75
The Stage Is Set    79
"What Did You Say, Senator?"    89

The Senate Resolves    101
Ready on the Right, Ready on the Left . .    115
Then Ho! For the Spanish Main!    122
"Stand or Fall"    133
A Paladin! A Paladin!    142
The Crisis Deepens    150
Counterattack    157
Jumping on Joe    163
A Matter of Consciences    176
Whose Fraud? Whose Hoax?    186

Dead Men Tell No Tales    201
Maryland and Marshall—Oh, My!    212
"Moral Leprosy?" Or "McCarthy for President?"    226
A Concert of Discords    235
A Lesson in Tactics    244
Lattimore, Ever Lattimore    253
Five Aces Are Hard to Beat    261
To the Conqueror, Medals of Valor    272

Corsair at Large    281
"Too Bad It Isn't Poison"    290
Those Semantical Greek Ships    298
Twelve Weeks in Spring    307
Joe Stubs His Toe?    329
High, Wide, and Handsome    342
Mellow but Not Mild    351

"I Spy" at Monmouth    363
"A Declaration of War"    373
Ruffles and Skirmishes    384
"George Washington with a Running Sore"    393
"Who Promoted Peress?"—Act One    405
"Who Promoted Peress?"—Act Two    416
That Chicken Luncheon    429
"Point of No Return"    443
The Bursting of the Dam    460

"Rougher and Rougher and Rougher"    477
On the Slippery Slope    489
A Front of Brass    499
"I Show You a Photograph"    512
A Calm View of Bedlam    530
The Purloined Letter    552
The Monitored Calls    570
"No Sense of Decency?"    578
"Fretful Lightning"    590

"A Challenge to Civilization?"    603
A Study in Severity    610
"Once More unto the Breach"    617
AND ADDENDA . . .    623

     The second week of the Fort Monmouth investigation began with a tour of the sprawling Evans laboratories there by McCarthy, Stevens, and Major General Kirke B. Lawton, commander of the base. Roy Cohn and the administrative assistants of Senators Potter and Dirksen flew to the site with the senator but were not admitted to the laboratories because they lacked clearance. This caused some altercation at the gate, Cohn especially appearing to be incensed by his exclusion; but the visit ended with mutual expressions of harmony and pledges of cooperation. Incidentally McCarthy revealed that more than a dozen workers at the highly sensitive laboratories had been suspended, and said that his investigation would continue.
     "I have been very favorably impressed with the forceful and aggressive steps taken by Secretary Stevens and General Lawton to clear up this situation," the senator said, beaming. "I was more than impressed, I was surprised, to find General Lawton, instead of resenting the exposure of facts which should be exposed, helping out in this housecleaning. An extremely bad and dangerous situation has existed here over the years. Some past and present-until recently present-employes have been very unfaithful. But I am sure that the great majority here are loyal, true, and doing an outstanding job for their country. . . . They are just as happy as we are to see the few bad apples thrown out by Mr. Stevens and General Lawton. After seeing the Evans laboratories I am impressed with the tremendous damage a spy could do if he had access to its classified information."
     Not to be outdone in cordiality, Secretary Stevens responded that "this is the kind of teamwork between the executive and legislative branches of the government which will clean up any situation which needs cleaning up. We have had the complete cooperation of the commanding general and his staff. . . . I said recently that if any person was unwilling to answer the question of whether he was a Communist, there was no place for him in the Department of the Army.
     Two days later McCarthy announced that three more Fort Monmouth specialists had been suspended, and the day after that the total rose to twenty. Then the senator took off on a speaking tour of the Midwest. By the time he got back to Washington the whole country would be caught up in a controversy that quite over-shadowed his veiled intimations of skullduggery through betrayal of the nation's radar secrets.

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A 1998 interview of Louis Kalpan, a Camp Evans employee suspended during the investigations.

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