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Judge Balley Aldrich '28 tentatively admitteed into evidence yesterday a tape recording of the Jan. 1954 hearing at which Leon J. Kamin '48 refused to discuss former Communist associates. His decision followed a day-long battle by the defense...
...portion of the tape played to Judge Aldrich yesterday seemed directly to contradict Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's testimony that Kamin was present in the hearing room when he discussed the purposes for which Kamin had been called. The tape included a phrase not recorded in the transcript: After McCarthy had explained the hearing's purpose and said Kamin would be the first witness, a voice said, "I believe Mr. Kamin is in the side room...
...Aldrich accepted the recordings after defense counsel Calvin P. Bartlett asserted that the tapes would show differences from the printed transcript. But he has not finally ruled out government objections. He added, after defense and government lawyers agreed, that he would listen to them in private to save time...
...question was "so manifestly outside the admitted scope of the inquiry," Aldrich said, "that I am surprised the government has required the defendant to stand trial on his refusal to answer...
...Aldrich said, quoting a court decision of the 1930's, that McCarthy's subcommittee "had no right to engage in a general 'fishing expedition' . . . for the chance that something discreditable might turn...