Word: matusow
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...press conference was held to blurb Matusow's forthcoming autobiography, False Witness, in which he tells of being a highly successful liar while serving as a professional witness. The book will not, however, tell the whole story of Harvey Marshall Matusow...
...Contest Cheater. The son of a Russian-born Bronx cigar-store keeper, Matusow emerged from World War II as a staff sergeant. He was intrigued by Communist ideas, mainly insofar as they concerned male-female relationships. In 1947 he joined the party. He was not a success : his one minor triumph as a Communist eventually helped get him kicked out of the party...
...Daily Worker ran a contest in which the person selling the most subscriptions would get a free trip to Puerto Rico, then the Red equivalent of TV's trip to Bermuda. Harvey Matusow badgered his friends to contribute to various causes (he offered a wide selection, since he was a member of 46 front organizations), and diverted the money he got into the Daily Worker contest. When he learned that he was still far behind in the competition, he dug up $100 out of his own pocket and faked a list of new subscribers. The party proudly announced that...
...took quite a while for the Communists to catch up with Matusow, but, when he was finally kicked out of the party in 1951, one of the two reasons given was that he was a contest cheater. The other-and the more pressing-reason was that by this time Matusow, having turned informer to the FBI, was an "enemy agent...
...Matusow had been making a miserable $35 a week as a Red errand boy, and he had noted the rise of McCarthyism. Matusow now says that anti-Communism looked like "a good racket." He was soon in business right up to his mouth. He named more than 150 persons as Communists (the fact that many of them were was purely coincidental). He testified against the 13 second-string Communist leaders (Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, et al.); he was a witness in the trial of Clinton Jencks, official of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. He appeared four times before...