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...knows that a good headline, come appropriation time, can do more than months of hard work. Last week, as his Un-American Activities Committee applied for a whopping, $200,000 allotment from the House, Thomas dug deep. What he fetched up was an old file on Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards. The bureau is the Government's chief research agency in physics, mathematics, chemistry and engineering...
...Condon, declared the report, was "one of the weakest links in our atomic security," an associate of "alleged Soviet espionage agents." The report said that Condon was an executive director of the American-Soviet Science Society, an affiliate of the Communist:front National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. The report cited a letter from the FBI dated May 1947, which declared that Condon had been "in contact as late as 1947 with an individual alleged, by a self-confessed Soviet espionage agent, to have engaged in espionage activities with the Russians in Washington, D.C., from...
...Condon was consultant to the National Defense Research Committee, of which President Conant was chairman during the war. President Conant was unavailable for comment...
...telegram expressing a vote of confidence was sent to Condon yesterday by his personal friends among the faculty. Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics, a personal friend of Condon's since 1928, stated that the scientist was "well-fitted for his position...
Bart J. Bok, Associate Director of the College Observatory, claimed in a speech to students of Renasclacy Polytechnic. Institute that Condon was the victim of "smear technique" and that the present action of the committee was a threat to civil liberties...