Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 03 1131-03-p086

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ne eee Ne ete | 41 secretary. When it came time to put together the briefing for Ike in November 1952, there might well have been a serious problem What happened to Forrestal's original? His sanity was rapidly slipping in the spring of 1949 shortly before he apparently jumped out of an 18th story window at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The FBI and Admiral Souers were certainly concerned with him, as was his friend (later Secretary of Defense) Robert Lovett. Bush was still around. His files...