Word: liaison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II, Field served briefly with the OSS as liaison officer between the U.S. and the Communist undergrounds in Western Europe. When peace came, Field turned up as a relief worker, handling Eastern European refugees for the Unitarian Service .Committee...
...second reason is the FBI--not just the eight or so regular New Haven agents, but the many more undercover agents, the liaison men on the faculty, the FBI informants, official, semi-official, and just plain snoopers. Provost Furniss himself says that the known agents are only a minority in the New Haven FBI system. No one agrees on this system's area of investigation. In the physics department alone, some feel that every faculty member and student is under surveillance; others believe that few men except applicants for government positions and men involved in government projects are being checked...
...another case the New Haven FBI system has again definitely violated its own code of ethics. This third case is one of scare tactics, employed not by a regular agent, but by one of the FBI's many liaison men. Provost Furniss told the story to the CRIMSON: Late one night recently, an eminently respectable Yale faculty member, a one-time refugee from Nazi Germany, received a mysterious telephone call...
...Provost called the liaison man into his office and told him to cut it out. Thus, in one case the Fill system was discovered using such scare tactics and stopped. The question remains as to how many similar incidents have never been reported, but just brooded over by the victims...
...also interesting to note how misinformed this liaison man was on the professor's citizenship. This scope of his misinformation might indeed be compared to that of the man who reported Mr. Cohen was a Communist...