 A bizarre aftermath to the crisis occurred when the columnist Jack Anderson in his "Washington Merry-Go-Around" column broke the news on 13 December 1971 of the "tilt", which led to an investigation of who had leaked the news.A Navy stenographer, Charles Radford, was accused of leaking the information; Radford denied leaking, but admitted that he stole documents from Kissinger on orders of Admiral Robert Welander who passed on the documents to Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.The commander of the Navy, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, summed up the scene by late 1971