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from his office at the Pentagon, and held at the White House. Forrestal had told a friend that he
was being followed, and that his phone was tapped. He noticed the beginnings of the Korean
War, fifteen months before it actually started.
Once he was in the hospital, he was allowed no visitors. On May 22, 1949, his brother, Henry
Forrestal, decided to take his brother for a ride into the country. That same day, James Forrestal,
jumped from the 16th floor of the hospital. Found on a third floor projection, the cord of his
bathrobe was tied around his neck, and the hospital released a statement that he committed
suicide, even though there was not enough evidence to prove that he had.
In 1951, his diaries were published by Viking Press, but they were heavily censored by the
White House, the Pentagon, and Walter Millis, of the New York Tribune, so the full story could
never be known. His family priest, Monsignor Maurice S. Sheehy said: “Many, many times in
his letters to me, Jim Forrestal wrote anxiously and fearfully and bitterly of the enormous harm
that had been; and was unceasingly being done, by men in high office in the United States
government, who he was convinced were Communists or under the influence of Communists,
and who he said were shaping the policies of the United States government to aid Soviet Russia
and harm the United States.”
To this day, Forrestal continues to be labeled as being insane, and the cause of his death
remains unknown.
Towards the end of 1949, three men visited the office of Sen. Joseph McCarthy to show him
an FBI report detailing the Communist penetration of the State Department and other
government spy networks. On February 9, 1950, in a speech before the Ohio County Women’s
Republican Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, he said: “I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals
who would appear to be either card-carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party,
but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy.” A Special Subcommittee of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was established to investigate where there were disloyal
people employed at the State Department. However, instead of investigating the accusations,
they investigated McCarthy, and a wave of anti-McCarthy sentiment swept the country. On
September 23, 1950, McCarthy revealed what would happen because of the Yalta Conference in
1945: “Here was signed the death warrant of the young men who were dying today in the hills
and valleys of Korea. Here was signed the death warrant of the young men who will die
tomorrow in the jungles of Indochina (Vietnam).”
McCarthy was accused of smearing the reputation of innocent people, and on July 30, 1954,
Sen. Ralph Flanders introduced a resolution condemning him for “conduct unbecoming a
member.” The speech by Flanders was written by the National Committee for an Effective
Congress, which had been created by Arthur Goldsmith, who compiled the charges against
McCarthy. He was originally charged with 46 counts, but after the hearings, only two remained,
and the Senate voted only to “censure” him, which is a milder punishment than “condemning”
him.
McCarthy died on May 2, 1957 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital of “acute hepatic failure.” No
autopsy was ever performed, leading many to believe that he was killed because he was closer to
the truth the most people ever dreamed. Of the 81 security risks that McCarthy said was in the
State Department, by November, 1954, they had all been removed, either by dismissal or
resignation. Over a year later, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee revealed that they had a
list of 847 security risks in the State Department.
Louis Budenz, a former Communist, said: “The destruction of Joe McCarthy leaves the way
open to intimidate any person of consequence who moves against the Conspiracy. The