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The Willoughby story was a grim oneso far as our Republics internal security is concerned. The retired major general put the finger on the Pentagon. named names. and charged it with suppression of 11/4 million words of Communist spy evidence gathered by General MacArthurs. headquarters in Tokyo. He blamed the failure of top officials in Washington to turn over evidence involving naturalized Americans working for the Kremlin and the protection of traitor suspects on two members of the Roosevelt CabinetSecretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and former Army Secretary Kenneth C. RoW41. Along with this came the declaration by MacArthurs former top G2 that the evidence of Communist. antiAmerican conspiracy. documented and damning and namIng American citizens involved. was withheld by secret. influence in Washington so that it never reached the New York court of Judge Harold R.