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Thus in October Burgum invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer 15 questions about alleged Communist activity...
Shortly thereafter Chancellor Henry T. Heald suspended Burgum saying in part, "Refusal of a teacher to state whether he is or has been a member of the Communist Party, when questions on this subject are raised by such a legislative committee, is a breach of his duty to the government and to the University...
...question was referred to a faculty committee for review and report. There were 11 three-hour sessions at which the stenographic record ran to 984 pages. At the hearing testimony was advanced tracing the Party or Red-front activity of Burgum over the past 20 years...
Manning Johnson, a former Communist, and Herbert A. Philbrick, one-time undercover agent for the FBI, both identified Burgum as a Commie...
...financed the defense on the now convicted top Reds. He asked in 1951 for money to finance cargoes of supplies to send to Communist China. He solicited funds in 1952 for defense of the now convicted "second string" Communists. In all, 62 exhibits were presented to show that Burgum's "conduct coincided with the path of the Communist Party" during the past 20 years...