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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy yesterday admitted under cross-examination that no written evidence in his subcommittee's files influenced his decision to call Leon J. Kamin '49 before it in January...
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy yesterday took the stand in the contempt of Congress trial of Leon J. Kamin '49 and testified he had called Kamin before his subcommittee as part of a wide investigation of subversion in defense installations...
McCarthy said he had hoped Kamin, as "a press organizer, and a paid member of the Communist party" would have been able to reveal the names of Communists in defense plants. Such names were essential for "the full picture" of Communist infiltration the Senate needed before framing laws, he said...
...government was attempting to establish the subcommittee's authority to ask the questions Kamin refused to answer in January 1954. Assistant U.S. Attorney John M. Harrington, Jr. introduced documents on the McCarthy subcommittee's history and asked the Senator and Cohn to describe the events which led up to Kamin's being called to testify...
Questions Bartlett asked Cohn tried to establish that the subcommittee possessed very little written material about Kamin before it called him. Cohn and McCarthy relied on information provided by their staff-director, Francis P. Carr...