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betray her country, that she had been in touch with the Russian agents, picking up information that she could get anywhere and everywhere and taking it to them. Now, the fact that some of the material was gotten from Government employees doesn't excuse her. I mean, I have never been able to even comprehend her mentality. I realize that she's been forgiven, so to speak, by the F.B.I. and the Church and everybody else.

Interviewer:

Did you ever read that article in Harpers' by Richard Rovere?

Perkins:

No. I've got the thing upstairs. I bought the magazine, but I haven't read it.

Interviewer:

“The Kept Witness.” Terrific.

Perkins:

I want to tell you about how Richardson made this terrific effort to get Bentley before them on a particular case. It wasn't the Remington case, but it was another case, although they wanted her also on the Remington case, because he was accused of taking papers to her. They never were proved to be papers of any consequence. The only papers he was proven to have taken were these mimeographed releases that were laid out on the table for the Press. But that did indicate, of course, a desire on his part to





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