"Look Good, That's Me!"

In seining through the wartime rolls of the Office of Strategic Services, the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee brought up a strange fish. He was George S. Wuchinich, who served as OSS liaison man with the Communist armies of Yugoslavia and China during the war, and achieved some postwar notoriety as pal of Red Boss Steve Nelson. In 1950 he was named before the House Un-American Activities Committee as one of 13 leading Communists in Pittsburgh.

Wuchinich was violent and rattled during his appearance last week. When Counsel Robert Morris asked about his OSS work, he curled his lip. "I think I did more than you, counsel, for the defense of my country," he replied. "You may have a paratrooper haircut, but I don't believe you earned it. I have worn this haircut for ten years." Wuchinich proudly recounted his adventures as an American spy, but invoked the Fifth Amendment when the committee asked him if he had ever spied for the Communists. In answer to the query, "Do you consider yourself a true American?" Wuchinich rose to his feet, glared at the committee, and proceeded to read an order and citation awarding him the Distinguished Service Cross for parachuting into Yugoslavia. When he had finished, there were some hisses from the audience. Wuchinich turned, shook his fist and shouted, "That's me, ladies and gentlemen, and you schoolchildren, too! Look good, that's me!"

At length, the committee wearied of the witness' reiteration of his wartime heroism. After several more futile questions and increasingly incoherent answers, the Senators gave up, tossed their strange fish back into his troubled waters.

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