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Twisted Quotes. What was the evidence that he was a Russian spy? Lattimore demanded. McCarthy had talked darkly of an ex-Communist who would swear that Lattimore had been under party discipline. "I do not know the name of this alleged witness," said Lattimore. But leaning forward earnestly, he made a sweeping denial that he was or ever had been a Communist, a Communist fellow traveler or a Communist dupe...
...identify his sources, refused to turn over the full documents from which he read scattered excerpts. "Regardless of whether any Senator may disagree with me," he announced defiantly, "that is the procedure which I intend to follow." But, as usual, the names were not long in leaking out. The ex-Communist was reported to be Louis Budenz, onetime editor of the Daily Worker, who now teaches at Fordham University. The general supposedly was the Voice of America's Russian expert, Alexander Barmine, who resigned as Russian charge d'affaires at Athens in 1937 rather than return to Moscow...
...attorney went ahead with plans for appeal-just in case his bosses left him in the lurch. But they didn't. After four days, Gubichev got his orders: he would be shipped out on the Polish liner Batory, the useful Communist vessel which had once carried off ex-Communist Spy Gerhart Eisler as a stowaway...
Hiss was subpoenaed and questioned. He denied knowing Chambers. Before the grand jury could reach any conclusions, the House Un-American Activities Committee caught the scent and acted. The committee subpoenaed Elizabeth Bentley, graduate of Vassar and, like Chambers, an ex-Communist courier. She named Government officials who, she said, had passed secret documents to her. Then the committee subpoenaed Chambers. He generally corroborated Miss Bentley's story, testified that Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, whom she named, was at the least a dupe of the C.P., and repeated not all but a number...
Chambers resigned from TIME, stating: "When TIME hired me in 1939, its editors knew that I was an ex-Communist; they did not know that espionage was involved . . ." He was compelled now to "stand up" and tell the facts. "I cannot share this indispensable ordeal with anyone." He prepared himself to face the consequences...