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Repercussions over the Chambers-Bentley testimony waxed hot. Politicians, spurred by patriotic fervor and desire for national notoriety, shouted of widespread Communist infiltration into key government policy posts. "Red herring!" countered President Truman and he dismissed the charges as cheap political attempts to discredit his Administration. But indications clearly pointed toward infiltration and systematic espionage, especially in the Executive Department...
...specifically said that I believed that the disregard of the evidence in the White case was "because of the unwillingness of the non-Communists in responsible positions to face the facts and a persistent delusion that Communism in the Government of the United States was only a red herring...
...this subcommittee completes its investigation, I believe that you will conclude, as I did, that there was an unwillingness on the part of Mr. Truman and others around him to face the facts and a persistent delusion that Communist espionage in high places in our Government was a Red herring. And I believe you will conclude that this attitude, this delusion, may have resulted in great harm to our nation...
...White was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him to the most sensitive and important position he ever held in Government service." This, added Brownell, was evidence of the "persistent delusion that Communism in the Government of the U.S. was only a red herring," and of the "blindness which inflicted the former Administration on this matter...