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Dennis ran into personal trouble. In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee demanded to know his right name. He refused to disclose it and spurned a subpoena. For that he was cited for contempt of Congress. The charge is still pending against...
...coat. She had needed it; the Moscow winter and the chill blast of the Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause for some 30 of her 64 years...
Three-Year Search. Sam Carr's arrest ended a three-year search. The Mounties had plastered Canada with "Wanted" signs after Carr disappeared early in 1946 just ahead of a subpoena from the Royal Commission on espionage. The commission, whose report gave a full chapter to Sam Carr, called him "the main Canadian cog" in the Russian military espionage organization in Canada...
...next day Stripling telephoned Chambers to come to the committee's Washington office; on arrival he was served with a subpoena which directed him to turn over all forms of documents and evidence in his possession. Chambers looked at the legal form; then, matter-of-factly, he admitted that he had more evidence, and promised to turn it over...
...admitted, just that he had been "indiscreet." But, he added, he could not understand "how the loyalty board could have cleared Dr. Condon in view of the evidence." From his bed in Walter Reed Hospital, where he is recuperating from an attack of gastrointestinal hemorrhages, he issued a subpoena for the board's files. Secretary of Commerce Harriman refused to honor the subpoena, on the ground that it would be unfair to those who had testified in confidence, and would prejudice future loyalty probes. Blustered Thomas: "If they think they are going to get away with it, they...