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William Wadman is the most discussed man on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches no classes, administers no department, forms no policy. He is the "contact man" at the University between the administration and the California Senate Committee on Un-American Activities. His precise duties are vague and hidden; Mr. Wadman is feared on the campus...
Burns assured the presidents that he was not attempting to set up a "Gostapo." But he thought that having a man on the campus to investigate groups or professors suspected by the committee of subversive activities would facilitate his work and would provide closer liaison between Burns and the colleges. Burns suggested that all the colleges try the plan and added that he would publicly criticize any who refused...
...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...
...visitor to the campus-like surroundings of the "HICOG" office is strongly aware of the contrast with the wainscoting and small-pane windows of Massachusetts Hall. At a beautifully-landscaped estate on the bank of the Rhine, the offices occupy several large buildings of the same design as Harvard's Commons. The only thing missing is the World Tree...
...campus after campus, Redding found that hatred of America is an unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus...