Robert Morris

Chief counsel for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) from 1956 to 1958, the Cold War-era congressional investigative body chaired by James O. Eastland.

Matters to this vault as the on-record voice behind the 1957 subpoena of Ludwik Rajchman: an FBI teletype relaying a same-night wire story quotes Morris telling the press both the subcommittee's reason for questioning Rajchman ("communist activities in specialized agencies of the UN") and the specific trigger for the subpoena's timing (word that Rajchman might be leaving the country within days) — the most detailed contemporaneous statement of SISS's own stated motive anywhere in the file.

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