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Then the subcommittee counsel, Julien Sourwine, brought up Grutzner dispatches from the Korean front. One story served Communist purposes, Sourwine said; another dispatch disclosed the first F-86 Sabre jet victory in Korea. The Times answered that the Sabre jet dispatch had been cleared by the Pentagon.
The Burdett testimony and the run of witnesses touched off by it added no sensational fact to the nation's knowledge of the Communist conspiracy. But it did help to fill in the background where such figures as Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley had stood in semi-isolation. As a result of Burdett's disclosures, it was a little easier to understand the extent of Communist influence on prewar American life.