num_pages: 142
description: In 1955, Matusow came clean with a book, False Witness, in which he disclosed that he had been an FBI agent and was paid to give information about members of the Communist Party. He also claimed in the book that McCarthy and Roy Cohn had encouraged him to lie. Because of the book, Matusow was found guilty of perjury, jailed for nearly three years, and ultimately blacklisted.
language: English
title: False Witness
publisher: General Books