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...seining through the wartime rolls of the Office of Strategic Services, the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee brought up a strange fish. He was George S. Wuchinich, who served as OSS liaison man with the Communist armies of Yugoslavia and China during the war, and achieved some postwar notoriety as pal of Red Boss Steve Nelson. In 1950 he was named before the House Un-American Activities Committee as one of 13 leading Communists in Pittsburgh...
Wuchinich was violent and rattled during his appearance last week. When Counsel Robert Morris asked about his OSS work, he curled his lip. "I think I did more than you, counsel, for the defense of my country," he replied. "You may have a paratrooper haircut, but I don't believe you earned it. I have worn this haircut for ten years." Wuchinich proudly recounted his adventures as an American spy, but invoked the Fifth Amendment when the committee asked him if he had ever spied for the Communists. In answer to the query, "Do you consider yourself a true...
...Lawton Collins, retiring Army chief of staff, to be the representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on NATO's Military Committee and Standing Group; and New York Textile Man John C. Hughes, 61, a World War I aide of General John J. Pershing and World War II OSS official, to be the U.S. representative, with ambassadorial rank, on the North Atlantic Council...
...week, the law school of Harvard had to decide what to do with the second-year students who had refused to tell the Jenner subcommittee whether they had ever held a Communist meeting at their homes. Meanwhile. Boston University was debating the case of Professor Maurice Halperin, the former OSS man and Latin American expert who had refused to say whether he had ever known Elizabeth Bentley. In a sense, the fate of these individuals was only a part of a larger problem facing U.S. campuses last week. The big question on U.S. educators' minds: what overall effect...
Maurice Halperin, 47, associate professor in Boston University's department of Latin American studies and a wartime OSS man, testified before Senator William Jenner in Boston. Though he insisted that he had not at any time committed espionage, he refused to say whether he had ever been a member of Elizabeth Bentley's spy ring or whether he had ever known Alger Hiss, William Remington or John Abt. Professor Halperin did say: "At no time and in no way whatsoever have I tried to influence the political, philosophical or social thinking of my students...