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When Senator Joe McCarthy began his investigation of possible security leaks in the Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth last October, the New York Times reported it in great detail. The stories, whose chief source was McCarthy's own daily briefing of reporters on what went on in the closed session, resulted in such Times headlines as: ROSENBERG CALLED
RADAR SPY LEADER; RADAR WITNESS BREAKS DOWN: WILL TELL ALL ABOUT SPY RING AND MONMOUTH FIGURE LINKED TO HISS RING...
...Harvard? At that, Coleman was one of the most cooperative witnesses. In ten days of hearings, 23 witnesses, not all of them Fort Monmouth alumni although most had worked for the Signal Corps, refused to answer questions. Some of them need not have bowed even to McCarthy in the calculated art of making news. Among them...
...Sylvia Berke, who was employed at Fort Monmouth in 1943. denied that she was a member of the Communist Party then. With her lawyer beside her, a study in distress, Mrs. Berke said that she was not a Communist last Sept. 15, but refused to say if she had been one Sept. 13. McCarthy told her that if she is fired from her position as a school clerk in The Bronx, she "might apply for a job over at Harvard-there seems to be a privileged sanctuary over there for Fifth Amendment cases...
...sleazy character and an underground espionage agent for the Communists," refused to tell anything except his age-31. Four witnesses identified Hyman as a Communist. McCarthy produced records indicating that Hyman in the last two years had made nearly 500 telephone calls to U.S. defense installations, including Fort Monmouth...