A McCarthy of the Left:

...Gillmor's book, all Congressional investigators of Communist subversion are ravening persecutors who drive innocent patriots to take refuge in the Fifth Amendment, while all ex-Communist informers are venal character assassins...

...Among the ex-Communists he attempts to discredit are Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley...

...If most Congressional investigating committees used Mr...

...contributor to "Commentary" "Commonweal" A USEFUL BOOK could be written about the incompetence and irresponsibility of some Congressional Red-hunters and the damage they have done to some loyal citizens and to the morale of some Government services...

...In Mr...

...This is not it...

...Gillmor's techniques, our civil liberties would be in a parlous state indeed...

...To this end, he employs methods which are the same whether used by Senator McCarthy, Daily Worker editorial writers or Dan Gillmor, to wit: the parenthetical leer, the verbal nudge, the misplaced quotation marks and the virtuous exclamation point, as well as the standard forensic non-sequiturs, open-ended negatives and rhetorical diversions...

...The facts are that there are not many Joe McCarthys, that the great majority of those who invoke the Fifth Amendment do so because they are or have been Communists, and that most of the ex-Communists utilized by the FBI and Congressional committees are underpaid, over-worked, and denied credit for the courage and personal sacrifice which they often display...

...Instead, Mr...

...Gillmor has given us an expansion of his contributions, first published in the Daily Compass, to the literature of anti-anti-Communist obscuration, diversion and crocodile lament...

...Among those whom Mr...

...Gillmor directly or otherwise exculpates are Owen Lattimore, Harry Dexter White, Gregory Silvermaster, Frank Coe, William Ludwig Ullman, Lauch-lin Currie, Charles Kramer, Victor Perlo and George Silverman...