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...Boston, according to Herbert Philbrick, former FBI counteragent, the "Pro-4" (i.e., professional) Communist cell had between 70 and 80 members, including between 20 and 30 professors...
...remained as elusive as Tinker Bell. She had few close friends, was rarely seen in public off stage. At one time, overwork broke her health, and she found rest in a Roman Catholic convent in France (she was a nondenominational Christian). She lived there in a white-walled, cell-like room, which she later had reproduced in her own palatial Long Island home...
...Undercover Agent Herbert Philbrick flatly identified her and her husband as former Communists. In 1947, Philbrick told the subcommittee, he attended a meeting of Boston Communists. Subject of discussion: whether Dr. Markham should be transferred to Boston, or whether she should continue her work in the Cambridge Communist cell. Though both the Markhams have denied the Philbrick testimony, the Harvard Corporation decided last week to "reopen" her case, suspend her with pay until she has "an opportunity to be heard...
...longtime McCarthy collaborator, Matthews has been feeding Joe information and suggestions perhaps as far back as McCarthy's first out-on-the-limb blast at Communism in the State Department, made at Wheeling, W.Va. in February 1950. Matthews has been a member of what Westbrook Pegler calls "our cell of Red baiters," a group with which McCarthy also mingled. "It is not an organized group of Red baiters," Pegler has explained. "[But] Mr. Matthews is an amateur cook . . . He cooks a meal and we go down and . . . take part in a small, festive evening...
...boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must be atomized so that it would be utterly obedient to the Kremlin, it was Ulbricht, under the pseudonym Zelle (Cell), who proceeded to chop it into a confusion of small cells. Ulbricht plotted with the Nazis in the 1932 transport strike, which ruined the democratic Social Democrats and helped propel Hitler to power. He was among the first to flee Nazi Germany (although he tampered with his biography later...