Ex-Institute members denounced former colleagues before McCarthy-era Senate committees.

Evidence

When an attempt was made in 1951 to prove that the Institute of Pacific Relations had had communist members of staff who had contributed to the defeat of Chiang Kai-Shek and the victory of the Chinese communists, Wittfogel was called before the McCarthy Committee, a sub-committee of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. An apostate communist, he made a sorry spectacle of himself as he denounced a former associate of the Institute of Social Research, Moses Finkelstein, as a communist. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 407

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s broader theme of émigré Marxists turning anticommunist informants. — connects to: Cooperating with anti-Communist congressional committees destroyed leftist scholars’ academic standing — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 857; New Criticism’s rise and fall tracked McCarthy-era anti-communism
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Cooperating with anti-Communist congressional committees destroyed leftist scholars’ academic standing — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 857; New Criticism’s rise and fall tracked McCarthy-era anti-communism