Word: natvig
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...biggest blow to the Government's case came from its star witness, prim Marie Natvig. In October Mrs. Natvig held the stand for 13 days, and under questioning by FCC Attorney Walter R. Powell Jr., told luridly and convincingly of meeting "Comrade Lamb" at a Communist Party gathering. The two discussed Communism in a Columbus, O. bistro named the Purple Cow, she swore, and ended the discussion in a hotel room, where she committed her "first act of infidelity." Three months later the grey-haired grandmother recanted. On the stand Mrs. Natvig said that she had been "brainwashed...
After hearing this, FCC Examiner Herbert Sharfman announced that he considered her testimony "completely incredible"and worthless. Last week in Washington, a federal grand jury indicted Marie Natvig on nine counts of perjury. None of them, however, had anything to do with the main issue of the Lamb case. The indictment merely charged that Mrs. Natvig had perjured herself when she 1) charged FCC Lawyer Powell with "coercing" her into lying, and 2) denied she had told the FBI that she had been...
Events of the past week indicate that the system is even more unhealthy than was previously apparent. First there was the admission, by an Air Force "security risk" firings were actually probationary employees fired for non-security reasons. Still more upsetting were the continued recantations of Harvey Matusow, Marie Natvig, and Lowell Watson, three former $25-a-day witnesses for the Justice Department who now admit that they lied in their incriminating testimony against suspected Communists. Is it this same type of witness, one wonders, that the Department is shielding when it refuses to let an accused employee confront...
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