Snoops & Secrets

PEOPLE

Richard Arens -HUAC staff director

David I. Ashe – lawyer, UPA

Thomas W. Beale – chief HUAC clerk

Mildred Blauvelt – undercover NYPD detective

Leonard Boudin – Rabinowitz and Boudin – law firm defending the teachers

Harold Cammer – Witt and Cammer – law firm defending the teachers

Michael A. Castaldi – ass’t corp counsel

Joseph B. Cavallaro, Board of Higher Education chairman

Margaret Disco – undercover NYPD detective

Bella Dodd – TU legislative representative; became an informer (S&S page)

John Dunne – Moskoff’s chief investigator

William Hartnett – Board of Higher Education

Stephanie Horvath – undercover NYPD detective

William Jansen – superintendent of schools

William E. Jenner – Republican Senator/SISS

Abraham (Abe) Lederman – Teachers Union president

James Marshall – Board of Education member

Robert J. Morris – SISS chief counsel, 1951-53 and 1956-58

Saul Moskoff – assistant corporation counsel assigned to run the investigations

Victor Rabinowitz – Rabinowitz and Boudin – law firm defending the teachers

Leon Racht – NY Journal-American columnist; AWARE supporter

Howard Rushmore – informed while writing for the NY Journal-American; ex-CP

Rose Russell – Teachers Union legislative representative

Patrick F. Scanlan – editor of The Tablet, newspaper of the Brooklyn Diocese of the RC Church

Dolores Scotti – HUAC investigator; NY??-based

Rebecca Simonson – Teachers Guild president

Frank S. Tavenner – HUAC counsel

George Timone – Board of Education member, chairman of its Law Committee

Nathan Witt – Witt and Cammer – law firm defending the teachers

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ABBREVIATIONS

AFL – American Federation of Labor

AFT – American Federation of Teachers

ALP – American Labor Party

BOSSI – Bureau of Special Services and Investigations of the NYPD

CIO – Congress of Industrial Organization

CP – Communist Party

CPUSA – American Communist Party

FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

HUAC – House Committee on Un-American Activities

IWO – International Workers Order

NYPD – New York Police Department

SACB – Subversive Activities Control Board

SISS – Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

TU – Teachers Union

UFT – United Federation of Teachers

UPA – United Parents Association