Word: remington
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...loyalty case can have a happy ending, William W. Remington's seemed to have had one. Two years ago, Remington, a boyish-looking Department of Commerce economist, was accused by ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley of passing wartime secrets to her espionage ring. He was promptly suspended from his $10,330-a-year job. Then the top U.S. loyalty review board studied his case, sent him back to work with $5,000 back pay and a clean bill of health-although his duties had been juggled so that he was burdened with few security decisions. When ex-Spy Bentley...
Last week 32-year-old Economist Remington learned that the show wasn't over, only the first act. The House Committee on Un-American Activities wanted him to hear excerpts from secret testimony taken from two more ex-Communists: Howard Allen Bridgman, identified as an associate professor at Tufts College in Massachusetts, and Kenneth McConnell, a onetime party organizer. Both had sworn that they knew Remington as a Communist Party member and had sat in cell meetings with him while he worked (during a one-year interlude between his second and third years at Dartmouth) as a messenger...
...Remington didn't remember McConnell, he told the committee. "I met Bridgman," he added. "If he was a secret Communist I did not know it ... He must have assumed from my [labor union] associations that I was a member of his ilk. I never was . . . And when I say never I mean never, whether...
...days later the committee called Elizabeth Bentley for more secret testimony. Nobody worried too much at this stage whether Remington had been a Communist at age 3 or 18. The question that haunted the committee was whether Remington, at age 32-or the three ex-Communists-had committed perjury...
Miss Bentley repeated her allegations on a television program, where she no longer enjoyed Congressional immunity. Remington brought a $100,000 libel suit against Miss Bentley, the television company, and the program's sponsors, which was settled out of court last February for a "substantial...