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Heiskell:

No, he wasn't. Somehow or other he got a lot of stuff from our files. I forget where he got it, but he did, because ultimately McCullough even recognized some of the stuff as being his own. [laughs] But you know, the evidence seemed to pile up, and the fact that he could only meet with Hughes under the most weird circumstances in the weirdest places without any notice whatsoever, so on and so on, all fit with Hughes's background. So the work progressed, and more and more stuff came through, and the more you read the more interesting it was. It was absolutely fascinating!

Q:

You were reading it as it was coming in?

Heiskell:

I read pieces of it as it came along, and we were all discussing it, and we were all very nervous.

Q:

This was when Ralph Graves was editor, right?

Heiskell:

Yes.

Q:

This was towards the end of LIFE.

Heiskell:

Yes.

Q:

Go ahead.

Heiskell:

We really were very nervous, because we realized we didn't





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