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City Councillor John D. Lynch said yesterday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been in Cambridge the last few days, investigating the names on the "Reducators" list. Sixty-eight faculty members are called Communists. Communist sympathizers, or Fellow-Travelers in this document...
...Lynch also said that F.B.I. agents had been talking with Chief of Police John R. King about the list. King denied this statement, saying "no F.B.I. man has been in my office today or any day this week...
...Since the F.B.I. has taken over," Lynch said, "I will not bring up any more Communist control bills. The F.B.I. has a wider area to cover and I will give them whatever help...
...that they could not give out any information on their activities here. But an official said that any investigation would be conducted on an individual basis. "Since the Cambridge City Council is such a notoriously fiery bunch," he went on, "I would not put too much weight on this (Lynch's) statement...
...Councillor Lynch suggested a more immediate cause of possible mutinies and discord. He brought forth the list of "Reducators at Harvard" which the National Council for American Education has been peddling for a couple of years...