Volume 11, Number 12 · January 2, 1969
Gilpatric and General Dynamics: Some Unanswered Questions
By I.F. Stone
When and if the McClellan committee reopens its hearings into the TFX affair and finally makes a report upon it, the role played by Gilpatric needs to be clarified. In the still incomplete record, his candor as a public official hardly matches his skill as a witness. At his confirmation hearing as Deputy Secretary of Defense on January 17, 1961, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he made no mention of his relations with General Dynamics but said only that his firm 'has served many large companies, small companies, that have done business with the Defense Department' and that on confirmation he would retire from the firm 'and I will have no financial or other interest in it, except that I will be paid sums of money that will represent my interest in work that was done before I left the firm; not large sums of money [italics added] but sums that represent the unbilled and uncollected work of the firm for past periods.'
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