Investigations: The Spies Who Were Caught Cold

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All of this understandably led Abe Ribicoff to make the understatement that, "there's too much snooping going on." To Nader the Senator observed: "You can feel pretty proud. They have put you through the mill and they haven't found a damn thing wrong with you."

General Motors President Roche himself ended the six-hour hearings. After consulting with Theodore C. Sorensen, President Kennedy's onetime aide and Roche's blue-ribbon special counsel for the hearing, he returned to the witness chair to make a second apology. Said he, in a statement aimed as much at his own underlings as at the Senators or the public: "It will not be our policy in the future to undertake investigation of those who speak or write critically of our products."

That was not enough to satisfy the Senators. The G.M. case, along with other recent instances of industrial espionage, has already upset them to the point where, starting next month, they plan a full-scale investigation into the whole problem.