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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 39

129 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 128 pages OCR'd
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Hs pate eee wept ase tw gt gee ce ek RE whe ya A Alege surements pc hg et ae dg rt chiie the names of eovernment |: ——— A Staff Reported Urging Action In 5 Cases Against M cCarthy | A month-old. bitherto unpub- miftec, the Se e Elections Subcom- ate tipns ued a La ing and deceit brought against !——— San. Joseph R.sMeCarthy (R-] Wis.) veslerday was reported | the Providence (RL) dournat] and Bulielin[ 00 TT oe na Washington, members af ‘the subcommittee investigating! the characs declined to release | the staff report. . { The Providence NOWSPApPer | published exeerpts it said it had | obtained from the Senate cam.) mittee staff's report. The shalt! investigated charges lodged } against the Wisconsin Senator | oy Sén. William Benton (D-| Sa aleteteeeer nee ee \ Conn.) 1 The report, the newspaper! said. __recommends "hearings | shOUTT he” conducled”on_fyecot | the 10 Benton cha The Leis cr cages into ¥ regs. sald the five! ommended further inquiry arc: | Case 1. Benton's charge that | McCarthy committed perjury } ‘vhen he denied under oath thal | he had said in a Wheeling, W.! Va., speech that there were 208 | card-carrying Communists in the | “fate Department known to the I. ~ecretary of State. ‘ Case 2. The so-calied “Lustron | ase" invoiving Benton's charge | ‘vat McCarthy accepted $10,000! ‘t “influence money" fram th ct ustron Corp. - Case 4. In which Benton said | ‘Carthy “practiced calculated | ‘eit on the Sonate and peopte |. falsely stating on the Sonate di wor that Sen. Millard Tydings | ‘Md.) had forced him to make | Scials against whom his unsu b- | f' tiated charges of Commun- “were directed.” ‘Vase & This casc, Benton said, ‘stituted “conscious and de-! vate deception of the Sen: ’" He said it involved 3 mise by MeCarthy to list | cs of 81 Communists in gov- 44 WAR 7 B UMAR 111952 . a Case 10. This deals with the! par : activities ef one ompieye and! hu cad w - " i push ahi ad with hear ene presumed emplove of Me-! ings on charges of perjury, ly- possess an FBI ehart 1 n_ FBI cha istin Communists in the State De- partment. tion whether McCarthy “falsely accused Americans and excused convicled Germans involved in the infamous Malmedy disaster," OT RECORDED forts to hoax the Senate with j Crument for any Senate com-! lished staf recommendation that eres ee ae Te eee ame 0-19 © Toleon . Ppduse V7 i Nfe fa Clegg Carthy. Isvin The other five cases listed by G Benton last September 28 were: Harbo Case 3. This deals with what Rosen | Benton called McCarthy's “af- Tracy the incredible charge” that Gen. | Laughlin ‘George C. Marshall had been! Mobr t of an infamous conspiracy } riful to his country. Tete. Rogm__ Case 5. This reviews the part Neaso MeCarthy took in the 1950 Mary- land election campaign and ac- euses him of "fraud and deceit” | in his actions there. . Case 6. This charged MeCar- thy with deliberate deception inj offering to repeat, without any Senatorial immunity from suit, “libelous statements which he later refused to repeat off th i \ flobr (of the Senate)." ase 7. in this, Benton sa MeCarthy was fullty of erate deception” jn claiming toe ~ ee ————— » “Case 9. This raised the ques- Times-Herala Wash. Post 1952 Wash. News (irl Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compasse | 9 c Dates 4 4
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