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...Abraham Glasser, an associate professor at the Rutgers Law School, thus became the third member of the Rutgers faculty since 1952 to leave the school after invoking the Fifth Amendment before a Congressional committee...
Charges that Glasser was engaged in subversive activities on behalf of the Communist Party came to light as early as the spring of 1941 when he was suspended from his Justice Department job on charges of transmitting material to Russian agents...
...four months investigation of the charges followed and Glasser was officially absolved of the specific charges of Communism and espionage, although he was declared negligent in his handling of department files...
After retirement from the OPA in 1946, Glasser served for a brief time in a New York law firm and then obtained an appointment on the Rutgers Law faculty...
...charges of espionage were revived at periodic intervals, however. A special grand jury in New York City is reported to have considered the accusations in 1947 but took no action in the matter and did not even call Glasser as a witness...