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...Senators began to question the witness. Did Budenz know-of his own knowledge-that Lattimore was a Communist? Replied Budenz: "Outside of what I was officially told by the Communist leaders, I do not know...
What about McCarthy's charge that Lattimore was "the top Russian espionage agent in the U.S.?" Said Budenz: "To my knowledge, that statement is not technically accurate...
Faint Damns. Committee Counsel Edward Morgan pointed out that Lattimore had helped raise money for Finland during the Soviet-Finnish war and had also supported the Marshall Plan, but Witness Budenz seemed not to be impressed. Exemptions from the party line were granted to people "in delicate positions," he said. He also had his own explanation of the Worker's criticism of Lattimore's recent book, Situation in Asia: "It is a policy to praise them with faint damns. We have this method used on a number of distinguished men, who if praised too closely would simply...
...Budenz admitted that he had not mentioned Lattimore to the FBI until "a couple of days" after committee members had been shown a summary of the FBI's file. Why hadn't he mentioned Lattimore before? He hadn't had time to get around to it, explained Budenz, though he conceded that he had been supplying names to the FBI for five years. He had even taken Lattimore's name out of a recent piece for Collier's because "all concealed Communists can sue anyone for libel, not for the purpose of winning...
Basis in Fact. Lattimore, who had been scribbling notes furiously as Budenz testified, promptly struck back. His lawyers sent to the stand Brigadier General Elliott R. Thorpe, a retired officer who was General Douglas MacArthur's wartime counter-intelligence chief. He had investigated Lattimore, said Thorpe, in the 19303, in 1944, in 1947. "Never in my experience as an intelligence officer have I heard a man so frequently referred to as a 'Communist' with so little basis in fact," testified Thorpe...