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...Anabaptist-turned-Anglican Rector Gates, the 17th century's Harvey Matusow, infiltrated Catholic circles, spun a yarn about a Papist plot aimed at the assassination of Charles II, was exposed as a liar after a hue and cry both in and out of Parliament, was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate to Tyburn for his pains-and to everyone's dismay, lived to lie another...
...witnesses at the Jencks perjury trial were paid FBI Informers J. W. Ford and Harvey Matusow, who testified that they had known Jencks as a party member. Both admitted that they had reported on Jencks's activities at the time in statements to the FBI. At the trial, in 1954, Matusow admitted: "I don't recall what I put into my reports two or three years ago, written or oral." Later (as Justice Brennan, writing for the Supreme Court majority, noted last week) the notorious Matusow recanted his testimony about Jencks. Obviously then, the original Ford-Matusow reports...
Convicted last week in a Manhattan Federal Court on five counts of perjury: Harvey Marshall Matusow, former paid Communist functionary (1947-50) and paid anti-Communist informer (1950-54), who once observed: "I don't even trust myself." Matusow had testified that an Assistant U.S. Attorney had coached him to testify falsely at the 1952 trials of 13 second-string Communist leaders. "He didn't lie to protect himself," summed up U.S. Attorney Paul W. Williams. "He lied to implicate others, to destroy our judicial system and to discredit persons and Government agencies fighting the Communist menace...
...jury voted not guilty on two counts that Hughes lied in telling a grand jury that Rauh and his friends had discussed giving money to Harvey Matusow, the professional witness and chronic liar who declared that he had not told the truth about Communist activities. On other counts-to the effect that Hughes was lying when he depicted Rauh not as a dupe but an accomplice in his unsuccessful frame-up of McCarthy-the jury was "hopelessly deadlocked...
Thereupon. Judge Thomason found Matusow guilty of contempt of court, a finding that avoided the legal complications involved in a perjury charge. He sentenced Matusow to three years in prison, and ordered him held in $10,000 bail. At that point. Matusow's stock appeared to have reached a new low. An El Paso bondsman, only recently released from the penitentiary, where he served sentence for receiving stolen goods, said: "I wouldn't post bond for that S.O.B...