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MS SOT Mr. Noah Dietrich, chief aide to Hughes Aircraft Company president Howard Hughes, regarding what he told committee investigator Francis Flanagan: "Mr. Flanagan, I don't quite understand why these particular contracts are being investigated. I believe there are political motives behind this thing. There isn't sufficient involved in here to justify an investigation, there is no fraud or corruption. I know personally, I believe, all of the details of the transactions. It is a tempest in a teapot, and you are going to be disappointed when you get through. The thing will blow up in your face." / CU Dietrich: "I said: 'I think you are shooting at Elliot Roosevelt with a shotgun, and in the process Hughes is being hit.' He said: 'We are not using a shotgun. We are shooting at him with a cannon.'" VO committee chair Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-MI): "Now, you brought this subject." Dietrich: "I dislike bringing this in because I like Mr. Flanagan." Voice of Ferguson: "You made the statement about that, shooting at him with a shotgun or shooting at him with a cannon." / Dietrich: "Well, he may have said 'rifle', at any rate, the .. shooting at him directly." / VO: "shooting at who?" / Dietrich: "at Elliot Roosevelt." / VO Sen. Claude Pepper (D-FL): "Shooting at Elliot Roosevelt with a cannon, or kind of heavy gun." / Dietrich: "He may have said 'rifle', there was a one-bullet article that he was referring to." / VO Ferguson: "At least, it was a heavier load than a shotgun." / Dietrich: "Oh, now you are building that inference into my statement. I didn't say that. What I want to tell you was that that he was trying to convey to me that he was not using a scattergun, he was shooting directly at Elliot Roosevelt as a target."