When CBS Commentator Winston Burdett bared his past as a Communist spy to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (TIME, July 11), he named ten other newsmen as members of the pre-World War II Communist Party cell at the now defunct Brooklyn Eagle. Of the first five to be called as witnesses, only New York Timesman Charles Grutzner came clean. Last week the others accused by Burdett had their chance.
First witness was David A. Gordon, a balding, sad-faced reporter who went to the strongly anti-Communist New York Daily News six years ago. On the...
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