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There has been considerable confusion over Furry's answers at last week's hearings on alleged espionage at the Monmouth, N.J. Signal Corps laboratories. Last Wednesday, McCarthy said that Furry had refused to tell the committee whether he had ever given secret radar data to the communists and whether he had indoctrinated students with communist philosophy. But the next day Osmond Fraenkel '08, Furry's counsel, said Furry had made it quite clear that he had never taken part in any act of espionage...
First, because of a "direct connection" between the M.I.T. radiation laboratory, at which Furry worked during the war, and work done at the Signal Corps laboratories in Fort Monmouth, N.J. The committee has been conducting hearings during the past two weeks on what McCarthy has termed "extremely dangerous espionage" at the Ft. Monmouth research center...
...exact connection between the M.I.T. radiation laboratory and the Ft. Monmouth center is not clear...
Unlike the Ft. Monmouth project, the M.I.T. lab, which was discontinued at the war's end, was not run directly by the Signal Corps. Although they did similar work, the M.I.T. labs were under the direction of the National Defense Research Council, set up at the war's start by the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...information gathered yesterday from Signal Corps and M.I.T. sources indicates that the radiation lab worked for all the armed forces and unquestionably did work for the Signal Corps which was related to research done at Ft. Monmouth...