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...this turncoat Winston Burdett truly repented his past sins, wouldn't his revelations have been of much more value when the great recanters Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley came forth with their stories and were being crucified by the press...
When Elizabeth Bentley began naming names from her Communist past, no one was more indignant than William Henry Taylor, onetime U.S. Treasury Department official who had found a comfortable postwar roost with the International Monetary Fund (as an adviser on Middle Eastern affairs). Upon learning that Witness Bentley had cited him as a member of the Nathan Gregory Silvermaster-Harry Dexter White spy ring in the Treasury Department, Taylor angrily fired off letters and an affidavit denying that he was or ever had been a Communist. Last week, after hearings on Taylor's fitness to continue with the International...
Playing an obvious game of guilt by association, he implied that all ex-Communist witnesses were lying. His special target: Elizabeth Bentley, whose testimony about Communist espionage is needed to convict the Silvermaster spy ring that she exposed...
...False Witness" [Feb. 14]: it's nice to feel that our nation has at least three patriots, in Herbert Philbrick, Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, whose anti-Communist testimony is consistently reliable...
...Board, four times before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, twice before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and several times before Joe McCarthy's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee. Matusow hobnobbed with McCarthy and Roy Cohn, and he married the wealthy ex-wife of Michigan's Republican Representative Alvin Bentley. Matusow's new wife divorced him, remarried him, then divorced him again. Last year he began work on his autobiography. Its planned title: Blacklisting Is My Business...