SHIRLEY B. BARNETT

Many of the people including me where never cleared because the standards were so ridiculous. If you had any kind of leftist background—and anybody worth their salt would have had some connections during the 1930s when anti-fascism was popular among intellectuals—you were never fully cleared. We all sort of ignored it because we were all there and they wanted us to work.

Many of the people including me where never cleared because the standards were so ridiculous. If you had any kind of leftist background—and anybody worth their salt would have had some connections during the 1930s when anti-fascism was popular among intellectuals—you were never fully cleared. We all sort of ignored it because we were all there and they wanted us to work.