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...Army selected the easiest way out, decided to discharge Peress honorably within 90 days, unless he selected an earlier date. March 31 was selected as the discharge date...
...Senator McCarthy called Major Peress before a closed session in New York, and Peress invoked the Fifth Amendment, declining to answer 32 questions about Communist affiliation...
November-December. The personnel board decided that Peress should be separated from the Army. How should this be done? One way was to court-martial him. But for what? He had done nothing but invoke his constitutional privilege as regulations provided. (Earlier in the year, the Army had court-martialed Lieut. Sheppard Carl Thierman, a Brooklyn physician, in an almost identical case, and he was acquitted.) The second course was to grant Peress a discharge other than honorable, but Peress could have held this up as long as a year and might have prevented it. The third way out: give...
...Peress went back to Camp Kilmer and asked for an immediate discharge. He was a hot case; his wish was promptly forwarded to the Pentagon. The Pentagon approved immediate.separation. The same day, in a letter, Senator McCarthy asked the Army to hold and court-martial Peress...
...Despite McCarthy's request, the Army honorably discharged Peress...