Dr. Irving Peress, Target of McCarthy Crusade, Dies at 97

NYT ^ | 11/17/2014 | SAM ROBERTS

[cherry]

my mother, God bless her soul, was wise.....she wasn’t a conservative nor a republican...she voted Kennedy.....but she knew the truth and she said that McCarthy was absolutely right.....

[boop]

Of COURSE he was a commie. In the 2005 interview, he states how great the Soviet system was.

And when given an opportunity to once and for all deny he was a commie, he hedged.

Not like anyone was going to come haul him away in 2005.

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"Dr. Peress was branded a Communist and his promotion — unsought by him, a reluctant warrior — became a Cold War battle cry."

The NYTs lies with as bold a face as their dearest leader Hussein Obama! The actual facts are exactly the opposite of their Times Orwellian screed. Here are the facts (from "The Real McCarthy Record" by James J. Drummey^*):

His name was Irving Peress and here is some background information. In December 1953, an Army general alerted Senator McCarthy to the incredible story of this New York dentist who was drafted into the Army as a captain in October 1952; who refused a month later to answer questions on a Defense Department form about membership in subversive organizations; who was recommended for dismissal by the Surgeon General of the Army in April 1953; but who requested and received a promotion to major the following October. Roy Cohn gave the facts on Peress to Army Counsel John G. Adams in December 1953, and Adams promised to do something about it.

When still no action had been taken on Peress a month later, McCarthy subpoenaed him before the committee on January 30, 1954. Peress took the Fifth Amendment 20 times when asked about his membership in the Communist Party, his attendance at a Communist training school, and his efforts to recruit military personnel into the party.

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^* James J. Drummey is a former senior editor of THE NEW AMERICAN. This article appeared originally in the May 11, 1987 issue of this magazine. This is webpage 3. Webpage 1 is @ : http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/mccarthy.htm

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he was a friend’s dentist in the late 70’s, he had copies of “Soviet Life” in his waiting room- in my friend’s words, “big, happy women riding tractors on the covers”.

[smartyaz]