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Leon J. Kamin, a teaching fellow in the department of social relations, who told the Jenner subcommittee that he is not now a member of the Communist Party, but refused to say whether he ever had been one. After investigating Kamin for itself, Harvard found that he joined the party while still a student in 1945, wrote for the Daily Worker under the name Leo Soft. In 1950, however, he had a change of heart, since then has had no connection-with the party. "Mr. Kamin," said the Corporation, "has not been under Communist domination since he first became...
Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of anatomy, who refused to tell the Jenner subcommittee anything at all about her relation to the party. The Corporation's findings: though she once taught a biology course at the Communist-run Samuel Adams School in Boston. Dr. Markham was never actually in the party. "We regret," said Harvard, "that Dr. Markham did not see fit to supplement the official record before the committee to this effect, but we do not regard that as controlling...
...Jenner pressed her, and she stated: "I decline to discuss whether I even talked with the Harvard Corporation...
After the hearing Jenner said his committee is sending a copy of her testimony to the Corporation. "We want to give them the record," he said. "We don't know whether the statements she made to them were sworn or not sworn...
...Jenner referred to that part of the Corporation's statement which said, "We think Dr. Markham's use of the Fifth Amendment is misconduct which creates the necessity for us to inquire into the full facts . . . On the information we now have we will take no action against...