Evening star., 1953-10-23
Mccarthy Questions
; New Witnesses
Al Monmouth Probe
Two Are UnfriendIy,
One Testifies Freely
In Espionage Inquiry
By Cecil HoIIond
By Cecil HoIIond
Star stoff correspendent

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 26.-
A former Fort Monmouth em-
ploye who worked on radar prof.
ects at the Army's research
center in 1942-1944 refused to-
day to tell Senate investigators
whether he was a Communist.
Senator Mccarthy, holding
four closed hearings on suspect
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ed espionage at the Army's Fort
Monmouth laboratories, would
not identify the witness who
testified at a closed session.
The Wisconsin Republican told
reporters that the man. after
leaving Fort Monmouth, worked
for "a Chinese professor doing
work for the Labor Department."
He said the witness also refused
to say whether the Chinese pro-
-fessor was a member of the
Communist Party.
Another witness, as Senator
Mccarthy pushed the Fort Mon
mouth investigation, was a
woman he described as an COR
ganizer for the Communist Party
in the New England area"
Link With Scientist.
The Senator said she was
called because the subcommittee
has considerable evidence" that
a suspended Fort Monmouth
scientist who served as liaiSon
between the Army Signal Corps
and Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology on secret radar work,
had been an overnight guest at
the woman'S home on several
occasions.
Senator Mccarthy said the
woman took to Fifth Amend
ment on practically everything
and refused to answer the sub.
committees question on grounds
of possible Self-incrimination.
He said the woman herself had
never been employed at Fort
Monmouth.
Senator Mccarthy said that
another witness turned out to be
unexpectedly friendly" and
gave the subcommittee informa-
ton about Morton Sobell, con-
victed atomic spy, and Sobell's
associations at Fort Monmouth.
Five More Scheduled.
At least five witnesses were
scheduled for an afternoon seS-
sion before the investigation is
recessed for a week or 10 days
while Senator Mccarthy is on a
speaking trip through the Mid
west and the Rocky Mountain
area. The afternoon witnesses,
it was said, have been connected
in other testimony with Julius
Rosenberg, executed atomic spy.
After hearings in Fort Mon
mouth yesterday and here last
night, Senator Mccarthy said:
/. A witness at last nights
hearing, who had access to secret
material while writing a book in
the mid 1940s on gun direction
by radar, refused on grounds of
possible self-incrimination to say
whether he was on the payroll
of Soviet military intelligence
while writing the book, whether
he is a Communist, and whether
he is currently engaged in espio-
mage activities.
2. A staff investigator has
brought back from Germany a
sworn statement and a three
hour tape recording on a Ger
man refugees story that while
working in Communist labora-
tories he saw what the Rus
slams said were secret American
documents. Senator Mccarthy
said the witness testified that
the Communist scientists S
laughed about the fact" they
were using documents from the
Evans laboratories, one of the
research centers at Fort Mon
mouth.
3. The tape recording of the
refugees story has not yet been
translated from German and
A(See MCCARTHY. Page A-I5)