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GOVERNMENTAL investigations; LEGISLATIVE hearings; UNITED States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; MUNDT, Karl; SCHINE, G. David; MCCARTHY, Joseph, 1908-1957

Focuses on the hearing conducted by a special subcommittee chaired by Senator Karl Mundt in 1954 regarding the alleged special treatment demanded by U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Joseph R. McCarthy and his chief counsel Roy Cohn for the subcommittee's former consultant G. David Schine. Revisions made to the subcommittee's rules in relation to the hearing; Rules adopted by the subcommittee a year after the investigation; Details of the subcommittee's investigation of Communist infiltration in the U.S. Army.