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The Moorer-Radford Affair was a political scandal involving members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who operated an espionage operation against President Richard Nixon's Cabinet, from 1970 to 1971. [ 1 ]
Thomas Hinman Moorer (February 9, 1912 – February 5, 2004) was an admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy who served as the 18th Chief of Naval Operations from 1967 to 1970 and 7th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974. [1]
In 1969, he returned to Washington for a third time, as a member of the Chairman's Staff Group within the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; during this assignment, he served as the liaison between Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and President's Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger ...
An investigation into the alleged misconduct by the Department of Defense Inspector General had concluded that Byrnes, who was separated from his wife, had conducted an adulterous affair with a married women for approximately a year and a half; continued the affair after being ordered by Army Chief of Staff, Peter Shoomaker, to cease contact ...
In a top-secret November 12 message to Moorer, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (Abrams' boss), warned, "I am deeply concerned over the mounting threat that the enemy's integrated air defense network has posed against the B-52 force." He said that "the enemy is more determined than ever to shoot down a ...
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Admiral John Hyland, left, with fellow admirals John S. McCain, Thomas Moorer, and Ephraim P. Holmes in 1968. After the war, he served stints as a test pilot, then took command of the carrier USS Saratoga in 1958. [3] He later commanded Carrier Division Four, then moved to a staff position at the Strategic Plans Division in Washington DC.
The real estate mogul and former president would then go on to marry his second wife, Marla Maples, in 1993, after the pair were rumoured to have engaged in an affair during his first marriage.