Word: zborowski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon made it clear that their protest extended beyond Oppenheimer's appointment to "communist infiltration at Harvard," and the College's "trend to the left." In '57 and '58, two further issues were raised: the professional integrity of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and the appointment of Mark Zborowski as a Research Assistant in Social Anthropology...
...April 22, 1958, the Philadelphia Inquirer headlined, "Harvard Aide Held in $20,000 Bail as Red Purjurer." The aide was Zborowski, who, according to the authorities, was for 25 years "a trusted Soviet secret police agent whose reports were read personally by Stalin." When Kenneth Robertson asked for the "essential facts surrounding the case of Comrade Zborowski," Pusey replied only that he had been "appointed last Spring by the President and Fellows." Robertson wrote back as follows...
...Harvard and the Program," Foundation trustee William A. Robertson '31 asserted. For example, "we think the recent Zborowski case has hurt the program considerably." Zborowski, a research assistant in Social Anthropology, was convicted of perjury in connection with testimony on communist affiliations...
...Zborowski at first at first had denied having met Soble, but later said he recalled a few meetings...
Nathan suggested that Soble may still be a loyal Communist and may have been "given the assignment to destroy the defendant because Zborowski had told the NKVD to go to hell...