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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. <ref>McCarthy to Tydings, 18 March 1950 with attached list.</ref> 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.
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. <ref>McCarthy to Tydings, 18 March 1950 with attached list.</ref> 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.
In 1950 A. S. Brent of the FBI did a thorough review of the 54 files covering the Gregory case once again of the case in response to a request for information concerning individuals who now become liable to register under Section 20 of the [[Internal Security Act of 1950]]. Brent found the facts still insufficient for prosecution under the espionage or related statutes.Brent made specific recommendations handling the cases of [[Joseph Katz]], [[Mary Price]], [[George Perezich]], and [[Abraham Brothman]]. Brent noted "It is realized that we are dealing with callous individuals. However, it is felt that we should concentrate our investigative efforts at this time on trying to find a weak spot in the armors of these people" and select several cases with suggestions how to do proceed. [[Anatole Volkov]], the son of [[Helen Silvermaster]] and stepson of [[Greg Silvermaster]] he says, "if we concentrate on Volkov... All of this, it is felt, will affect the Silvermasters and may possibly persuade them to cooperate." In [[Lud Ullman]]'s case Brent notes, "it is a common practice ...to contact parents and other relatives...Undoubtedly, an interview with them would disturb Ullman if it came to his attention." Of [[Duncan Chapin Lee]] he observes "there may be a way of persuading Lee to talk by interviewing his parents and relatives....If these interviews draw complaints from him then it is felt that we would be in a position to interview him thoroughly concerning the noted discrepancies." Regarding [[George Silverman]] Brent proposes, "Silverman would be very sensitive to an approach to his son...it... would disturb his father and might be the thing which will cause Silverman to cooperate with us." On [[Robert Talbot Millar, III]] "we should give consideration to closing in on Miller by talking to his father," and of [[Victor Perlo]] "we should give consideration to interviewing his parents." Brent remarks "It is realized that we are dealing with callous individuals" and cites the 1947 Tamm memo "That one of the subjects ...possibly the weakest member, be contacted...Failling in this respect, the other subjects should be exhaustively interviewed....it would seem logical to conduct such interviews as nearly simultaneously as possible. ...That failing to break any of the subjects, serious consideration be given to exposing this lousy outfit and at least hounding them from the federal service.
==Tensions of the times==
==Tensions of the times==