FEBRUARY 1954

RED FEAR--"The Fort Monmouth spy story fizzled out last month. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy concluded a series of public hearings, which he had said would ¿show that there was espionage' in the Fort Monmouth radar laboratory. His parade of witnesses has failed to develop any testimony on spying. Of some 30 Signal Corps scientists suspended by the Army as a result of the McCarthy investigation, none was accused of espionage. The New York Herald Tribune writer Walter Millis reported in his column: ¿This really vital and sensitive military installation has been wrecked--more thoroughly than any Soviet saboteur could have dreamed of doing it ... [through] the processes of witch-hunting, sheer bigotry, cowardice, race prejudice and sheer incompetence.'"

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