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Source of Information?[edit]

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- "While Chair, Moorer received unauthorized material taken from the White House offices of the National Security Council."

Does anybody know anything about such an incident and can provide sources? It would appear that it should be removed if no source is forthcoming.--TGC55 00:20, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No citation. Removed as unverified. —ERcheck @ 04:42, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's true.

"Yeoman Charles E. Radford, a young Navy stenographer who had been working with Kissinger and his staff, had confessed to a Department of Defense interrogator that for more than a year he had been passing thousands of top-secret Nixon-Kissinger documents to his superiors at the Pentagon. Radford had obtained the documents by systematically rifling through burn bags, interoffice envelopes, and even the briefcases of Kissinger and Kissinger's then-deputy, Brigadier General Alexander Haig. According to Radford, his supervisors—first Rear Admiral Rembrandt C. Robinson and then Rear Admiral Robert O. Welander—had routinely passed the ill-gotten documents to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and sometimes to Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the chief of naval operations. It was, in short, an unprecedented case of espionage that pitted the nation's top military commanders against their civilian commander in chief during wartime."

Jeffrey Rosen, "Nixon and the Chiefs", Atlantic Monthly. See http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200204/rosen

64.105.124.2 (talk) 21:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)captcrisis[reply]

P.S. "This was an UNPRECEDENTED CASE OF ESPIONAGE". Secret documents received by Moorer. "Removed as unverified" by ERCheck??? This is the only thing that makes this man notable. Don't you read the newspapers? Or is your only agenda whitewashing the military?? 68.198.150.179 (talk) 02:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)captcrisis[reply]

And . . . an interview with Radford himself, confirming the story.

http://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/11/archives/radford-contends-moorer-knew-a-bout-his-snooping-yeoman-says-4.html?_r=0

47.20.160.104 (talk) 06:02, 24 November 2016 (UTC) captcrisis[reply]

I'm glad to see that the above whitewash of Adm. Moorer has been exposed by wikipedia itself, which now has a separate article on the "Moorer - Radford Affair". Can this now be mentioned in this article on Moorer himself?? 68.196.10.68 (talk) 17:52, 20 June 2022 (UTC)captcrisis[reply]

WWII[edit]

Why is there nothing about his WWII experience? — Rlevse • Talk • 10:59, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Awards[edit]

The "Vietnam Campaign Medal with 1960- Device" is not a US Military award, and should be listed under Foreign Awards. It was issued by the former Republic of Vietnam --Jeepien (talk) 20:39, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article is very weak on Moorer's rather controversial CJCS history. Can't someone elaborate on this topic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ockham12 (talk • contribs) 08:23, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

External link to interview on nuclear policy?[edit]

Would an interview with Thomas Moorer from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0F260B5796BE49EAAEFD39E25FBD4958 (I helped with the site, so it would be conflict of interest for me to just add it.) Mccallucc (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see a problem. Cheers!--A.S. Brown (talk) 23:25, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

reference 10[edit]

I haven't edited a page in quite a while and I have forgotten how. Reference 10 is going to a dead link. The source of the quote is from "They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby" page 161.

According to Cite This For ME the book cited should read something like this

Findley, P. (1989) ‘“I’ll Take Care of the Congress”’, in They dare to speak out people and institutions confront Israel’s lobby. Chicago, Ill: Hill, pp. 161. PapiGrande (talk) 22:25, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, I stumbled through it PapiGrande (talk) 23:08, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]