European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Fog. 4 the stars and stripes tue Kay july 16, 1943 keeping i Washington up a Tele phone rings in the internal Rev Enue service irs Bureau. A jealous woman demands to know How an internal Revenue agent living in her neighbourhood can afford to drive a fancy sports car Send his children to a private school and buy his wife a Mink coat with hit Small salary. A convicted Embester hat nay dreams of working where Cash is stacked in big he App Lea for a Job with the ibs. A plumber working on a topped up toilet in an irs office unhook the pipe and finds the trouble. It is clogged with Crum pled pieces of income lax returns torn up by a dishonest irs employee. A taxpayer being interviewed by an irs auditor leans Back in his chair nonchalantly blows Cigar smoke toward the Selling and panel questions judge is worke Coon can t it make a Little none of the stunt ions 1 com Mon among the huge corps of irs workers who handle the billions of income tax dollars that is. Tax in Mem Send to the Treasury ency end Butch has occurred and could it does it Punnet a Button in the investigative machinery of the internal Revenue inspection service a unique enforcement Agency. The inspection Forte patrols us irs from within. To put it another Way it police Thep Ohmen and audit we Audi tors the Agency is completely in dependent and answerable Only to the commissioner of internal Revenue. H was created after in come tax scandals of the late hmm s which Congress Felt had undermined Public Confidence in it of Pentagon Chlori is honest the Revenue of its most important functions is checking out the charac Ter background of new irs Job applicants. Those who apply also Hove their income tax returns audited for the preceding three years and Sre required to file a statement of their financial As sets. These statements Are used Bytha inspectors when the irs receives a Anonymous tip that i certain agent Seemi to a living beyond his Means. Inspectors can Check what the employee s financial standing was when he joined the service. If he has suddenly accumulated wealth is a taxing he will be culled in to 525-Mnn irs police Force is directed by asst. Commissioner Vemon d. Mike Acree who stresses that hell not out to malign the character of Revenue personnel. We 8kb our role As being right Down us Middle to Bald. We an Empl try objective. Our Job la to protect the employee u Well a the he said statistics indicate that the average irs worker is honest and stays out of trouble that Coper cent of his investigations Are resolved in favor of the is backed up by govern ment records which show that during the last fiscal year Only j15 out of the 60,000 irs worker were dismissed for criminal acts. Acree said some irs employ Esmay dread a visit from one of his inspectors but there Are still Many who Are thankful. He men tempers getting Short As tfx probe drags out Washington Cap tempers whether favouritism or improper Legal right of Secretary of de my Alec Collar gun challenged apparently Era getting Shorter an political influences steered the fee Robert s. Mcnamara to sharply Korth s explanations of the investigation of the Job ultimately to Cost about make the judgment. But the line reasons the Pentagon War Pune contract gets j8.5 billion to general Dynamo of questioning in the hearings executives overrode military Eval 5jr i. La corp Holch has Grumman and Public statements outside in Gallons that the Boeing in leu y. Rep28�nd Alicr engineering corp. As dlr Alo a growing a Marc on the promised a better tfx at less v problem honed an incident in for h car Olina. A witness dropped a bomb Shell at a Bootleg Rolal Myrtlen he testified that the Revenue agent involved actually did not destroy the liquor from tha still but sold it Back into the booze Trade Acree recalled. We sent a team in on the Case and artere Able to go into a swamp and after considerable digging produce the broken necks of of out of Iso one of the inspection division s big jobs is keeping under Grabua out of the irs which seems to Fri Usu a press International w. Averell Harriman the Spratl Var Oid elder statesman of the new Frontier u in Moscow for Mother diplomatic my won of delicate negotiation. Thai former maw vol governor and no. 3 Man in the state department waa chosen once main by president Kennedy to Lac the russians across a con Fer net table this time to try to break the ust ban deadlock. H la a reflection of the Presl Dent t confident in Harriman that a Aba depart with author Ity to discus a Urf explore any of or Bast West issues the Rue Hana May bring up. Former polous Board chairman of the font Nam Union Bair Man first began it dip Lovitte missions curing to Mew a Al after Hli twitch to tha democratic party to Tup Wrt Alfred s. Nuti for the to. Pm debit Franklin d. Mitt to Moscow u ambassador. There he participated in almost every major International postwar served former president Harry s. Truman As Secretary of Commerce ambassador to Britain and later As director of Mutual Security and foreign Aid. Or. Truman once described Hamas an outstanding example of what a Public servant should Harriman joined the Kenned administration at ambassador at Large. Ten months later he be came assistant Secretary of state for far Eastern affairs. Since then he he been tent on trouble shooting missions throughout Asia and Europe. When fighting Between re China Ana India last year ceased Harriman was sent to India tits military needs. He nude o Side trip to Pakistan Inan Effort to end its Long feud with India Over months ago he was Dos patched to i Ondon and Parisand to Moscow to urge soviet Premier no Koto a. Khrushchev to help ensure that the communists Honor the 1061 Geneva agreement to guarantee an Independent and Neutral Laos. Harriman hat helped work out the Geneva agreement. Harriman was born nov. 19,1891. With a Golden spoon in hit he showed Early slant of thit tenacity that hat made him a acc earful became an expert at Bridge the nation s fourth ranking pol player and vanity oath of Crew at tale University while student Cost. Korth insisted the uni formed military s evaluations were of the Pratt my exchanges have been Between Mcclellan and Korth in poll by Point Chal Lenge and defense of Korth testimony that the general dynamics Grumman tfx would Fly higher faster. Ujj Irthy a and have belter combat Boeing s. Sen. Karl e. Mundl. the Secretary the award to general dynamics Grumman de fies understanding unless there is some reason that you wanted to Envor general Korth is continuing his test Mony this week and there Are indications he May remain on the witness stand through the Fol lowing of the air Force Eugene m. Zuckert is to follow Orch to the stand with to Namara expected to be the wind up witness. 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