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EN: rat "In substance, FORTAS and CLIFFORD confirmed that the man who had been arrested the previous week was WALTER JENKINS of the White House staff. They said he had suffered a nervous collapse owing to the strain of his work, and that he was to enter a hospital for immediate treatment. They said he was, in any event, certain to be removed permanently from his White House duties. They urged us to consider carefully whether The Star was obliged to publish a report of this nature concerning a married man with young children. "We considered it likely that the story eventually would appear, since it was known elsewhere. Our decision, however, in the light of the circumstances described, was to withhold publication so long as other newspapers and media did the same. "The decision, based on humanitarian considerations, was consonant with past policy of Phe Star. Something like 20 perver- sion arrests are made in the District during the average month. We do not report then. We believe that the individuals concerned in these pitiful cases need not be pillerted before the world--and that, removed from his high post and seeking medical aid, JENKINS was entitled to a chance to salvage some- thing of his personal life." be On October 29, 1964, 1c|__]reviewed a the newsp@per clippings regarding the appointee at the Library of the "Washington Daily News," which contained a newspaper clipping from the "Washington Post," May 22, 1953 edition entitled "Subversion Probe Tactics Analyzed Ieee cet foe enett Hel 2