Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relating to espionage." McCarthy burned and bored into the counterpunch. He grimly promised to open up the hearings and "let the evidence speak for itself." The Harry Dexter White case, which had given Joe $300,000 worth of free TV time, greatly enhanced interest in his revival of the Fort Monmouth hearings...
From the Grave. Thirty-three Fort Monmouth employees already had been suspended by the Signal Corps, not as a result of McCarthy's investigation. Some had been reinstated; most were awaiting hearings. Of the 33, McCarthy called only one, Aaron Coleman, a classmate of Julius Rosenberg at the City College of New York, who went to Fort Monmouth in 1939, became a radar laboratory chief...
...year at C.C.N.Y., but he swore that he had never seen, heard from or corresponded with Rosenberg after they left college. McCarthy, who admitted he had no living witnesses to prove the story, confronted Coleman with testimony from Rosenberg's trial: Rosenberg said that while an inspector at Fort Monmouth in the early 1940's, he had seen Coleman there. Said McCarthy, threatening a perjury citation against Coleman: "Testimony from the grave is admissible here...
Andrew J. Reid, chief intelligence agent at Fort Monmouth, testified that in 1946 a guard caught Coleman leaving the radar laboratories with secret documents. Coleman was asked if he had other such papers at home. "At first, he denied it," said Reid. "The second time, he said 'maybe.' and the third time, he said 'yes.' " A search revealed 43 documents, many of them marked classified, on a desk in Coleman's room. Coleman, called to the stand, told McCarthy he had taken the papers home to study...
...Harvard? At that, Coleman was one of the most cooperative witnesses. In ten days of hearings, 23 witnesses, not all of them Fort Monmouth alumni although most had worked for the Signal Corps, refused to answer questions. Some of them need not have bowed even to McCarthy in the calculated art of making news. Among them...