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McCarthy worked with and was a close personal friend of Bobby Kennedy. Kennedy was counsel for McCarthy's Senate investigations sub-committee. He was supposed to be the primary attorney, but it was decided that since a lot of the targets of the investigations were Jewish it would be better received if the Jewish Roy Cohn was counsel rather than the Catholic Bobby Kennedy. In fact, so persoanl was the McCarthy-Kennedy relationship, that McCarthy was godfather to Bobby Kennedy's first child. Democrats try to suppress this relationship.

How the world would be different if Bobby Kennedy had just stayed on as counsel.

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it was decided that since a lot of the targets of the investigations were Jewish it would be better received if the Jewish Roy Cohn was counsel rather than the Catholic Bobby Kennedy

Didn't help much. Those under investigation still tried to play the antisemitism card. Vol. 3 of the just released executive transcripts deals with possible Soviet agents at the Army's Ft. Monmouth radar labs. Many of the scientists there went to City College with Julius Rosenberg (who had recruited, the government knew, at least 10 friends to work for the Soviets). The committee wonders how those under investigation got lawyered up so fast:

Mr. Rainville. Then a couple of attorneys were there. Don't you wonder who is paying the bill?

Mr. Lovenstein. I know who is paying the bill.

Mr. Rainville. Oh, I thought you said you didn't know about that.

Mr. Lovenstein. I know who is.

Mr. Cohn. Who is?

Mr. Lovenstein. The B'nai B'rith Society, I know. This has been indicated.

Mr. Jones. The B'nai B'rith?

Mr. Lovenstein. Yes.

Mr. Rainville. The Anti-Defamation Society, you think?

Mr. Lovenstein. I heard the society mentioned. I don't think they have been called in . . .

Mr. Cohn. I want to ask you this: What is the point of B'nai B'rith having anything to do with this?

Mr. Lovenstein. There is an assumption that there is an anti-Semitic movement.

Mr. Cohn. Well, that is an outrageous assumption. I am a member and an officer of B'nai B'rith.

Mr. Lovenstein. I was under the same naive impression until I became aware of some facts. Excuse me for saying that.

Mr. Cohn. Sure. Who made the suggestion that there is an anti-Semitic movement?

Mr. Lovenstein. The rest of the people who have been suspended or un-cleared. I didn't originate it. I have heard it in the group . . .in the current investigation, to the best of our knowledge--I say ``our''; this is the meeting--there were fifteen people on the carpet, either suspended or uncleared. Of the fifteen, fourteen are Jewish. . . .

Mr. Cohn. This is all news to me. I don't know the religion of these people, and I don't care. It doesn't matter whether out of 530 people there are 530 Jews or Catholics or Protestants . . .

Mr. Schine. Thank you very much, sir.

Incidentally, on the question of anti-Semitism, if somebody there is anti-Semitic, according to your percentage figures, I would say he was fighting a losing battle. That 25 percent Jewish is rather a high percentage.

Mr. Lovenstein. Not at the current rate, because the current rate of suspensions is practically 99 percent Jewish. If you keep going at 99 percent, ultimately you get almost that whole 25 percent.

Mr. Schine. Of course, religion doesn't exclude the possibility of being involved in criminal activity or provide a shield which he can hide behind.

Mr. Lovenstein. Right, sir.

Mr. Jones. Where do you believe the fountainhead of this anti-Semitism stems from out there at Monmouth? . . .