Word: toumanoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Witness No. 3 was Vladimir I. Toumanoff, 29, formerly a department recruiting officer, now concerned with efficiency rating. With his testimony, the investigation turned specifically toward the question of homosexuals. At the outset Chairman Joe McCarthy struck a wild blow: Witness Toumanoff, he observed, was born "in the Russian Legation [in Constantinople] subsequent to the Communist revolution, so that of necessity his parents had to be acceptable to the Communist regime." The facts are that Toumanoff's parents were titled White Russians, and the legation was still a czarist enclave at the time of his birth...
...Toumanoff was asked if he thought it a good idea to deny the promotion board knowledge that an employee was a sexual deviate. He replied: "Yes sir, I think it is a good idea." Then Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, freshman from Washington, put a hypothetical case before the witness: Suppose that the files showed a candidate for promotion was a convicted homosexual? Would you then withhold the evidence? Toumanoff was silent...
...hard to answer, isn't it?" said McCarthy. "It certainly is," Toumanoff replied...