Mrs. Mary Stalcup Markward This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. AIM Report: Looney Clooney Smears Senator McCarthy - January A - Accuracy In Media

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   Published on: 1/19/2006   Last Visited: 1/20/2006

   A young Fairfax, Va. mother and homemaker named Mary Stalcup Markward had for seven years been a member of the Washington D.C. Communist Party.She was director of the party's membership, all the while working undercover for the FBI.

2. 2. www.aim.org

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   Last Visited: 1/20/2008

   I did not seek to "trash" Mary Markward's testimony by quoting the Subversive Control Board's conclusion that "Markward's testimony should be assayed with caution," since I don't consider caution a pejorative, and I think some caution is still advisable before making any "ultimate" assessments, especially since Markward was unable to identify Annie Lee Moss personally, having never met her, but could only point to her name and address in the Communist Party's membership rolls.
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   When Mary Markward was called by the board as an expert witness to testify about the secret doings of the party, the Communists sought to challenge her credibility.One of the issues raised concerned her compensation from the FBI for working as an undercover agent.Another, in response to the publicity given Moss, was that Markward had perjured herself in branding Moss a CP member.
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   For one thing, the point of the SACB inquiry, as the board repeatedly stressed, wasn't to investigate Moss but to gauge the credibility of Markward.
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   As the board put it in yet another ruling (January 15, 1959), again citing CP records, "we conclude that , the Communist Party's charge that Markward gave perjurious testimony is not substantiated.Consequently, Mrs. Markward's credibility is in no way impaired by the Annie Lee Moss matter,."
   
   So despite the verbal fuzzballs of Donald Ritchie, the SACB unequivocally said Markward was corroborated in the Moss affair, and never made any findings that weakened this conclusion.
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   These show the FBI data on the case weren't based simply on the say-so of Markward, but that the Bureau had obtained, as the SACB suggested, copies of the Communist Party records.