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hands. If not for the work of our House UnAmerican Activities Committee,
the prosecution would never have been so successful.
I refused to turn over to those bunglers the microfilms we had in
evidence. When there was a possibility I might be cited for contempt, I
raised the point of what a dangerous precedent could be set, since here I
was, a U.S. Congressman, appearing voluntarily before a grand jury.
But the truth of the matter was that those microfilms were copies of
documents forged on an old Woodstock typewriter that had been specially
constructed to resemble—to have the same peculiarities as—the
typewriter that had actually belonged to Alger Hiss’ s wife, Priscilla.
Then Whittaker Chambers hid these “old” 1938 microfilms inside a
pumpkin on his pumpkin farm. The trouble was, the Eastman Kodak
people stated that the type of film we used was not manufactured by their
company until 1945.
To this day, whenever the comic strip Peanuts mentions that bird
named Woodstock or the mysterious “pumpkin papers,” I suspect
Charles Schulz is trying to remind me of something.
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There seems to be a tradition of accusing those who fight
Communism of being homosexual. This smear tactic was used against

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