Teamed in tight-lipped pairs, a squad of determined men ranged the Pentagon last week. They were military gumshoes from the Air Force inspector general's office, sent out on a mission that was both sinister and ridiculous. "It's a damned comic opera,'' snapped a longtime Pentagon official. "In all my years in Government, I've never seen anything like this."
Act I of the comic opera began in late March, when Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara got sore because a Senate subcommittee planned to investigate the multibillion-dollar TFX fighter plane contract (TIME, March 22; April 5). Then the Washington Star's Pentagon Reporter Richard Fryklund...
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