Lattimore was indicted for perjury in his testimony before the McCarthy Committee, but Judge Luther Youngdahl dropped the charges against him in 1955 on "a purely technical finding, wholly unrelated to Lattimore's activities."<ref>William F. Buckley, Jr. , "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n13_v41/ai_7722313/ Why are the Liberals Whitewashing? Owen Lattimore in the Liberal Press]," ''National Review'', July 14, 1989</ref>