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...Berkeley, Calif...
...Berkeley's Daily Californian was sharply critical of the University administration for accepting what it called "the nebulous Burns-Committee program...
Combs described in detail the work of Wadman at Berkeley, who is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's academy, a graduate of Oxford University in England, and the veteran of 17 years of police work...
...account was an article in The Nation of January 30, 1954, entitled "G-Men on the Berkeley Campus." This article reviewed the situation, discounted the protestations from University officials, and concluded that both the legislature and the colleges were trying to appease the McCarthyites...
...situation in California, then, is far from clear-cut. Testimony has been given by the chief counsel of the state Un American Activities Committee that a representative was on the campus full-time to investigate any member of the faculty. The Berkeley administration insists that the average professor, not in classified research, is under no special surveillance. Because Mr. Wadman functions much of the time in secrecy there has been no decisive way for the faculty and students at California to find out all the facts about his job. His presence on the campus is resented in some quarters; there...