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...agency after having security-clearance trouble in other jobs; at least five of them later ducked behind the Fifth Amendment, refusing to say whether they were 1) Communists, or 2) spies, on the ground that an answer might incriminate them. Among these were Frank Coe, A. George Silverman, Harold Glasser and William Ludwig Ullmann...
Professor Abraham Glasser, 38, of the Rutgers Law School, was called because FBI reports alleged that as a special attorney in the Department of Justice in 1938, he gave information to three OGPU agents known as "X," "Nikolai Stern" and "Ovakimian." Another Justice Department report cleared him of being a Communist agent, but recommended that he be dismissed for "careless and improper" disclosure of official information. When the committee asked whether he could identify photographs of "X" or "Stern," Glasser refused to answer. About the only thing he would say: he is not now an "actual, official, card-carrying, organizationally...
...Glasser's counsel during the hearings was Leonard B. Boudin, whose letter defending those who refuse to testify before the House Committee was published in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...Glasser swore he was not a Communist, if by "Communist" his questioners meant "an official, card-carrying member of the Communist party." Nevertheless, he refused to answer any questions relating to his Communist connections from...
...reports said Glasser had made contact with Soviet representative agents in 1938-39 when he had worked as a special attorney with the Justice Department, and had given the agents secret information from the Justice Department files...