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Previously, Norman Levinson, an associate professor of mathematics at M.I.T., had told the committee that Furry "was and is a Communist Party member who worked in the radiation laboratories of the signal corps in the 1940's." Levinson's lawyer later denied that he had said Furry is now a Communist...
Kernan also said Levinson had admitted knowing Furry as a Communist up until 1945, when Levinson quit the Party, but did not say he was one at present...
This statement was challenged on Saturday by Walter N. Kernan, a Boston attorney who attended the hearings with Levinson on Friday...
Kernan said Levinson had never testifield that Furry worked for a Signal Corps Laboratory, only that he had worked for the M.I.T. radiation lab, which was under the direction of the National Defense Research Council...
According to a statement by McCarthy on Friday, the M.I.T. professor, since identified as Norman Levinson, associate professor of Mathematics, had given the committee the name of "a professor at Harvard who is now teaching there and said he was and is a Communist Party member who worked in the radiation laboratories of the Signal Corps in the 1940s...