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...slipped on many facts, and has carefully selected others. His statements that NSA's activities have been non-existent, and its policies completely in the grip of Catholic-controlled reactionaries are false. There is a vigorous Catholic bloc in NSA, and there have been unhappy examples of smear-scare techniques at their worst. But to damn NSA in such sweeping terms makes one wonder whether Mr. Marsh is not bitter over the failure of his own organization to do just what he charges the Catholic group with doing...
...Thomas Committee's smear of scientists is just an episode," Professor Victor K. Weisskopf of M.I.T. told the Student's Association of the Natural and Social Sciences last night in Winthrop House...
Secondly, Mr. Bracken told us how we should be glad to have a Thomas committee which "protects our civil liberties." I assume he was speaking of the recent smear of Karl T. Compton before they presented any valid evidence, and then denied him the opportunity to appear in his own defense. I think that well-informed Mr. Bracken would call that "100% Americanism in action." Stewart D. Kranz...
Bart J. Bok, Associate Director of the College Observatory, claimed in a speech to students of Renasclacy Polytechnic. Institute that Condon was the victim of "smear technique" and that the present action of the committee was a threat to civil liberties...
...unable to decide which one among them shall serve as the chief executive. The filibuster has seen the Council Chamber criss-crossed by vicious political tracers, it has turned simple ambition into bitter perversity, and has delayed vital legislation. Resulting from a hopelessly disorganized political system and a calculated smear campaign by a few professional politicians, the lengthy stalemate can only give the Councilmen enough rope to hang themselves and possibly the city along with them...