Army Personnel Actions Relating to Irving Peress: Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955. Seven volumes. 8vo. Wraps. iii, 541 p. + folding chart. Very good. [78257]
Irving Peress, a U.S. Army dentist during the Korean War, was investigated for alleged Communist activities. He was subsequently promoted in rank and, after this Committee called for him to be court-martialled, was honorably discharged. Senator McCarthy regarded this as an example of the Army being "soft on Communism." At the conclusion of these hearings McCarthy called the Justice Department to empanel a grand jury to investige Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwick for perjury. Zwick, who was Peress' commanding officer, previously had crossed swords with the Senator on this matter in fall of 1953.
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