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Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Lists and Venona

 

by John Earl Haynes

April 2007

 

Journalists and historians have often referred to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “list” as if it were a precisely defined entity.  It was not, however.  Certainly one would put his “numbered” list of eighty-one cases, given in a Senate speech of February 20, 1950, as the prime candidate for being McCarthy’s “list.”  But McCarthy himself quickly added several dozen more names to this list in communications to a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (commonly referred to in the press as the “Tydings Committee” from its chairman, Senator Millard Tydings).  The Tydings subcommittee in its “State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation” inquired into Senator McCarthy’s charges. 

 

Most but not all of Senator McCarthy’s numbered cases were drawn from the “Lee List” or “108 list” of unresolved DOS security cases compiled by the investigators for the House Appropriates Committee in 1947.  Robert E. Lee was the committee’s lead investigator and supervised preparation of the list.  The Tydings subcommittee also obtained this list.  The Lee list, also using numbers rather than names, was published in the proceeding of the subcommittee.[1] 

 

Senator McCarthy furnished the Tydings Committee the real names attached to his numbered cases, and the Tydings Committee received the real names attached to the Lee list as well.[2]  Over the years that followed all of the names became public one way or another.

 

Additionally, in a series of speeches McCarthy named others as secret Communists, spies, security risks, or participants in the Communist conspiracy.  Below these various lists are recapitulated. Only those he named from 1950 through 1952 (prior to become chairman of the Senate Governmental Operations Committee) will be considered here.  (All lists will be alphabetical.)


 

McCarthy’s List (1)

McCarthy’s 20 February Numbered List[3]

 

Real Name: McCarthy list #; Lee list #; Venona status; Non-Venona Evidence of Espionage

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Arndt, Ernest Theodore:  McCarthy list # 14; Lee list # 10; Not identified in Venona

 

Barnett, Mrs. Robert Warren:  McCarthy list # 49; Lee list # 59; Not identified in Venona

 

Barnett, Robert Warren:  McCarthy list # 48; Lee list # 59; Not identified in Venona

 

Berman, Harold:  McCarthy list # 70; Lee list # 85; Not identified in Venona

 

Brunauer, Esther Caukin:  McCarthy list # 47; Lee list # 55; Not identified in Venona

 

Cameron, Gertrude:  McCarthy list # 55; Lee list # 65; Not identified in Venona

 

Carlisle, Lois:  McCarthy list # 58; Lee list # 68; Not identified in Venona

 

Carter, William D.:  McCarthy list # 44; Lee list # 50; Not identified in Venona

 

Chipchin, Nelson:  McCarthy list # 23; No on Lee List: Benign identification in Venona[4]

 

Clucas, Lowell M., Jr.:  McCarthy list # 26; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona

 

Delgado, Mucio:  McCarthy list # 21; Lee list # 28; Not identified in Venona

 

Demerjian, Alice:  McCarthy list # 61; Lee list # 72; Not identified in Venona

 

Dubois, Cora:  McCarthy list # 60; Lee list # 70; Not identified in Venona

 

Ferry, Frances:  McCarthy list # 11; Lee list # 8; Not identified in Venona

 

Fierst, Herbert:  McCarthy list # 1; Lee list # 51; Not identified in Venona

 

Fishback, Sam:  McCarthy list # 43; Lee list # 49; Not identified in Venona

 

Ford, James T.:  McCarthy list # 76; Lee list # 96; Not identified in Venona

 

Gordon, Stella:  McCarthy list # 40; Lee list # 45; Not identified in Venona

 

Graze, Gerald:  McCarthy list # 29; Lee list # 25; Not identified in Venona;[5] Identified as a Soviet Espionage Source in the Gorsky Memo[6]

 

Graze, Stanley:  McCarthy list # 8; Lee list # 8; Not identified in Venona; Identified as a Soviet Espionage Source in the Gorsky Memo[7]

 

Grondahl, Tegnel Conrad:  McCarthy list # 25; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona

 

Gross, Aaron Jack:  McCarthy list # 68; Lee list # 83; Not identified in Venona

 

Harrison, Marcia Ruth:  McCarthy list # 7; Lee list # 4; Not identified in Venona

 

Horwin, Leonard:  McCarthy list # 73; Lee list # 91; Not identified in Venona

 

Hunt, Victor:  McCarthy list # 65; Lee list # 79; Not identified in Venona

 

Ilyefalvi-Vites, Gizella:  McCarthy list # 4; Lee list # 3; Not identified in Venona

 

Jankowski, Joseph T.:  McCarthy list # 74; Lee list # 92; Not identified in Venona

 

Jessup, Philip:  McCarthy list # 15; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona

 

Josephson, Joseph:  McCarthy list # 30; Lee list # 28; Not identified in Venona

 

Kamarck, Andrew W.:  McCarthy list # 78; Lee list # 100; Not identified in Venona

 

Katusich, Ivan:  McCarthy list # 27; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona

 

Kaufman, Arthur Milton:  McCarthy list # 38; Lee list # 43; Not identified in Venona

 

Kopelewish, Esther Less aka Mrs. Less:  McCarthy list # 24; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona

 

Lansberg, Hans:[8]  McCarthy list # 28; Lee list # 21; Not identified in Venona

 

Lemon, Edythe J.:  McCarthy list # 18; Lee list # 16; Not identified in Venona

 

Lewis, Mrs. Preston Keesling:  McCarthy list # 75; Lee list # 93; Not identified in Venona

 

Lifantieff-Lee, Paul A.:  McCarthy list # 56; Lee list # 66; Not identified in Venona

 

Lindsey, John Richard:  McCarthy list # 67; Lee list # 81; Not identified in Venona

 

Lloyd, David Demarest:  McCarthy list # 9; Lee list # 99; Not identified in Venona

 

Lorwin, Val R.:  McCarthy list # 54; Lee list # 64; Not identified in Venona

 

Maguite, Sylvia:  McCarthy list # 69; Lee list # 84; Not identified in Venona

 

Mann, Gottfried Thomas:  McCarthy list # 42; Lee list # 47; Not identified in Venona

 

Margolies, Daniel F.:  McCarthy list # 41; Lee list # 46; Not identified in Venona

 

Margolin, Arnold D.:  McCarthy list # 72; Lee list # 90;[9]  Not identified in Venona

 

Meigs, Peveril:  McCarthy list # 3; Lee list # 2; Not identified in Venona

 

Miller, Robert T.:  McCarthy list # 16; Lee list # 12; Not identified in Venona;[10]  First Identified as a Soviet Espionage Source by Elizabeth Bentley in her 1945 FBI statement.[11]

 

Montague, Ella M.:  McCarthy list # 34; Lee list # 32; Not identified in Venona

 

Neal, Fred Warner:  McCarthy list # 57; Lee list # 67; Not identified in Venona

 

Ness, Norman T.:  McCarthy list # 45; Lee list # 53; Not identified in Venona

 

Neumann, Franz Leopold:  McCarthy list # 59; Lee list # 69; Not identified in Venona[12]  Identified as a Soviet Espionage Source in Weinstein and Vassiliev’s The Haunted Wood.[13]

 

Osnatch, Olga F.:  McCarthy list # 37; Lee list # 42; Not identified in Venona

 

Parsons, Ruby A.:  McCarthy list # 81; Lee list # 78; Not identified in Venona

 

Perkins, Isham W.:  McCarthy list # 62; Lee list # 73; Not identified in Venona

 

Peter, Hollis W.:  McCarthy list # 64; Lee list # 76; Not identified in Venona

 

Polyzoides, T. Achilles:  McCarthy list # 79; Lee list # 105; Not identified in Venona

 

Posner, Marjorie S.:  McCarthy list # 10; Lee list # 7; Not identified in Venona

 

Posniak, Edward G.:  McCarthy list # 77; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona

 

Post, Richard:  McCarthy list # 53; Lee list # 63; Not identified in Venona

 

Raine, Philip:  McCarthy list # 52; Lee list # 62; Not identified in Venona

 

Randolph, David (aka Rosenberg):  McCarthy list # 66; Lee list # 80; Not identified in Venona

 

Rapoport, Alexander:  McCarthy list # 22; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona

 

Remington, William:  McCarthy list # 19; Not on Lee List; Not identified in Venona. First Identified as a Soviet Source by Elizabeth Bentley in her 1945 FBI statement.[14]

 

Robinson, Jay:  McCarthy list # 5; Lee list # 5; Not identified in Venona

 

Rommel, Rowena:  McCarthy list # 51; Lee list # 61; Not identified in Venona

 

Ross, Lewis:  McCarthy list # 31; Lee list # 29; Not identified in Venona

 

Ross, Robert:  McCarthy list # 32; Lee list # 30; Not identified in Venona

 

Schimmel, Sylvia:  McCarthy list # 50; Lee list # 60; Not identified in Venona

 

Shell, Melville:  McCarthy list # 35; Lee list # 34; Not identified in Venona

 

Siegel, Herman:  McCarthy list # 33; Lee list # 31; Not identified in Venona

 

Smith, S. Stevenson:  McCarthy list # 20; Lee list # 20; Not identified in Venona

 

Smith (Schmidt), Frederick W.:  McCarthy list # 36; Lee list # 40; Not identified in Venona

 

Stoinaoff, Stoian:  McCarthy list # 71; Lee list # 87; Not identified in Venona

 

Stone, William T.:  McCarthy list # 46; Lee list # 54; Not identified in Venona

 

Taylor, Jeanne E.:  McCarthy list # 17; Lee list # 14; Not identified in Venona

 

Tuchscher, Frances M.:  McCarthy list # 6; Lee list # 6; Not identified in Venona

 

Vincent, John Carter:  McCarthy list # 2; Lee list # 52; Not identified in Venona

 

Volin, Maz A.:  McCarthy list # 39; Lee list # 44; Not identified in Venona

 

Washburn [clerical error for Fishburn], John T.[15]:  McCarthy list # 80; Lee list # 106; Not identified in Venona

 

Washburne, Carleton:  McCarthy list # 13; Lee list # 9; Not identified in Venona

 

Wilcox, Stanley:  McCarthy list # 63; Lee list # 75; Not identified in Venona

 

Yuhas, Helen:  McCarthy list # 12; Lee list # 107; Not identified in Venona

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McCarthy’s List (2)

Remaining Lee List Names

 

In as much as Senator McCarthy cited the Lee list as one the DOS was negligent in not pursuing, the Lee list names not already listed above are listed below.

 

Real Name: Lee list #; Venona status; Non-Venona Evidence of Espionage

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Alexander, Dorothy Helen:  Lee list # 38; Not identified in Venona

 

Blaisdell, Donald C.:  Lee list # 103; Not identified in Venona

 

Borton, Hugh:  Lee list # 57; Not identified in Venona

 

Burlingame, Robert Sparks:  Lee list # 108; Not identified in Venona

 

DeMoretz, Shirley T.:  Lee list # 27; Not identified in Venona

 

Elinson, Marcelle D.:  Lee list # 104; Not identified in Venona

 

Eminowicz, Halina D.:  Lee list # 48; Not identified in Venona

 

Fine, Sherwood Monroe:  Lee list # 23; Not identified in Venona

 

Fishburn, John Tipton:  Lee list # 106; Not identified in Venona

 

Forno, Joseph T.:  Lee list # 96; Not identified in Venona

 

Fournier, Norman L.:  Lee list # 98; Not identified in Venona

 

Hankin, Robert:  Lee list # 94; Not identified in Venona

 

Hughes, Henry Stuart:  Lee list # 77; Not identified in Venona

 

Jackson, Malcolm Aage:  Lee list # 15; Not identified in Venona

 

Kamarck, Andrew W.:  Lee list # 100; Not identified in Venona

 

Lazarus, Theodore:  Lee list # 26; Not identified in Venona

 

Lovell, Leander Bell:  Lee list # 22; Not identified in Venona

 

Lunning, Just:  Lee list # 11; Not identified in Venona

 

Magruder, John H., III:  Lee list # 17; Not identified in Venona

 

Mallon, Dwight S.:  Lee list # 89; Not identified in Venona

 

Martin, Shirley Mae:  Lee list # 33; Not identified in Venona

 

Martingale, Rose Marie:  Lee list # 37; Not identified in Venona

 

McDavid, Raven I., Jr.:  Lee list # 19; Not identified in Venona

 

Moore, Leith Celestia:  Lee list # 18; Not identified in Venona

 

Parker, Glen T.:  Lee list # 95; Not identified in Venona

 

Pesto, Paula Pavedo:  Lee list # 82; Not identified in Venona

 

Rennie, Leonard C.:  Lee list # 13; Not identified in Venona

 

Rose, Ernest William:  Lee list # 41; Not identified in Venona

 

Rosenthal, Albert H.:  Lee list # 97; Not identified in Venona

 

Rothwell, George J.:  Lee list # 7; Not identified in Venona

 

Royce, Edith M.:  Lee list # 35; Not identified in Venona

 

Rudlin, Walter Arthur:  Lee list # 56;  Ambiguously identified in Venona[16]

 

Salmon, Thomas R.:  Lee list # 39; Not identified in Venona

 

Shevlin, Lorraine Arnold:  Lee list # 86; Not identified in Venona

 

Smothers, Frank Albert:  Lee list # 102; Not identified in Venona

 

Thomson, Charles A.:  Lee list # 58; Not identified in Venona

 

Thursz, Jonathan:  Lee list # 74; Not identified in Venona

 

Toory, Dr. Frank P.:  Lee list # 88; Not identified in Venona

 

Tuckerman, Gustavus:  Lee list # 101; Not identified in Venona

 

Wilfert, Howard F.:  Lee list # 36; Not identified in Venona

 

Wood, James E.:  Lee list # 24; Not identified in Venona

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McCarthy’s List (3)

Other Names Given to the Tydings Subcommittee

 

            In addition to the above McCarthy numbered cases and Lee list, McCarthy also identified by name the following persons to the Tydings subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[17]

 

Real Name: Venona status; Non-Venona Evidence of Espionage

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Askwith, Edna Jerry:  Not identified in Venona 

 

Erdos, Arpad:  Not identified in Venona

 

Grajdanzeve, Andrew aka Grade, Andrew:  Not identified in Venona

 

Harris, Reed:  Not identified in Venona  Not identified in Venona

 

Henkin, Louis:  Not identified in Venona

 

Hulten, Charles M.:  Not identified in Venona

 

Ingram, George Mason:  Not identified in Venona

 

Ludden, Raymond Paul:  Not identified in Venona

 

Meeker, Leonard C.:  Not identified in Venona

 

Nelson, Clarence J.:  Not identified in Venona

 

Newbegin, Robert:  Not identified in Venona

 

Ramon, Josephine:  Not identified in Venona

 

Rowe, James W.:  Not identified in Venona

 

Sanders, William:  Not identified in Venona

 

Tate, Jack B.:  Not identified in Venona

 

Zablodgwskei [Zablodowsky?], David:  Not identified in Venona.  Admitted to being a covert mail drop for Whittaker Chambers in the 1930s.[18]

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McCarthy’s List (4)

Buckley & Bozell List of Other McCarthy Names

 

Senator McCarthy in 1950, 1951 and 1952 identified other persons in speeches in the Senate and else where.  For the date and place of Senator McCarthy’s naming of these persons, see appendix D of William F. Buckley and L. Brent Bozell, McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1954).

 

Real Name: Venona status; Non-Venona Evidence of Espionage

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Brunauer, Stephen:  Not identified in Venona

 

Clubb, Oliver Edmund:  Not identified in Venona

 

Currie, Lauchlin: Identified in Venona as a Soviet Espionage Source;[19]  First Identified as a Soviet Source by Elizabeth Bentley in her 1945 FBI statement.[20]

 

Davies, John Paton: Not identified in Venona

 

Duran, Gustavo:  Not identified in Venona

 

Geiger, Theodore:  Not identified in Venona

 

Glasser, Harold: Identified in Venon as a Soviet Espionage Source;[21]  First Identified as a Soviet Source by Elizabeth Bentley in her 1945 FBI statement.[22]

 

Hanson, Haldore:  Not identified in Venona

 

Keeney, Mary Jane:  Identified in Venona as a Soviet Espionage Source[23]

 

Kenyon, Dorothy:  Not identified in Venona

 

Kerserling, Mary:  Not identified in Venona

 

Keyserling, Leon:  Not identified in Venona

 

Lattimore, Owen:  Not identified in Venona

 

Nash, Philleo:  Not identified in Venona

 

Schuman, Frederick:  Not identified in Venona

 

Service, John Stewart:  Not identified in Venona.  Identified by FBI bugging in 1945 as having deliberately leaked DOS information to the pro-Communist journal Amerasia.[24]

 

Shapley, Harlow:  Not identified in Venona

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McCarthy’s List (5)

June 14, 1951 “conspiracy of infamy so black” Speech

 

Senator McCarthy in a speech before the Senate on June 14, 1951, described, “a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.  A conspiracy of infamy so black that, when it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men.”[25]  The chief targets of the speech were Dean Acheson, President Truman’s secretary of state, and George Marshall, Army chief of staff under President Roosevelt and secretary of state and secretary of defense under Truman.  General Marshall was also the focus of Senator McCarthy’s book America’s Retreat from Victory: The Story of George Catlett Marshall:[26]

 

Real Name: Venona status; Non-Venona Evidence of Espionage

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Acheson, Dean:  Benign identification in Venona