Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Strategy and Tactics of World Communism: The significance of the Matusow case
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Strategy and Tactics of World Communism (significance of the Matusow Case)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Strategy and Tactics of World Communism
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Strategy and Tactics of World Communism
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index: 83rd Congress-85th Congress, 1953-1958 (5 v.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Strategy and Tactics of World Communism: The significance of the Matusow case
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
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Strategy and Tactics of World Communism: The significance of the Matusow case
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Deadly Farce
Author: Robert M. LichtmanPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028861
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The book traces the rise and fall of Harvey Matusow, a wise-guy, professional informer-witness of the McCarthy era, whose dramatic recantation led to his own imprisonment but hastened the end of the era. No issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era--until he recanted his testimony. His story illuminates a disturbing time in American history, one with renewed relevance today. Matusow was easily the most flamboyant of the professional ex-Communists, a celebrity informer who considered himself booked by Congressional committees not just to testify, but to entertain. He testified that Communists fostered loose sex, taught politicized Mother Goose rhymes to small children, and tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. He also named more than 200 people as Communists and was a prosecution witness in major criminal cases. transcripts, personal interviews, private papers, and other primary sources, most never before utilized, to describe the unusual role of ex-Communist informer-witnesses during the McCarthy era. The Justice Department kept several dozen political informers on the government's payroll to testify in hundreds of deportation, sedition, and contempt of Congress cases. Some informers achieved celebrity as the result of high-profile appearances at criminal trials and before Congressional committees. But as the era continued, instances of perjury began to appear. Harvey Matusow's sensational recantation in 1955 gave him his biggest audience yet. It led to the dissolution of the Justice Department's informer stable and ended the public's infatuation with the group. Matusow's unrepentant and at times vaudevillian appearances before the Senate red-hunting committee investigating his recantation, followed by his prosecution for perjury--for the recantation, not his original testimony--and prison sentence, mark the climax of Deadly Farce . McCarran, and Elizabeth Bentley, among many others, offers an inside, entertaining, and closely documented view of a largely untold part of McCarthy-era history. The columnist Murray Kempton described Matusow as a truly remarkable witness in the opera bouffe sense demanded by inquisitions of the 1950s.
Strategy and Tactics of World Communism
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security LawsPublisher:
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Category : Communist strategy
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description
Investigates statements in Harvey M. Matusow's book "False Witness" that he repeatedly gave false information while acting as an informant for congressional committees investigating communist activities.