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His chance would come soon: He was planning to go to Brussels in April 1953 for a Solvay Conference on proteins and made plans
to stop off in England on the way to see the Watson-Crick three-dimensional model and the photos from Wilkins's and Franklin's
laboratories.
But anti-Communist sentiments in the U.S. would again interfere with his plans. In late December 1952 a well-known but unreliable
informant named Louis Budenz named Pauling as a concealed Communist. Pauling was not a Communist and said so (25 years of
FBI investigations have since proved the point), calling Budenz a "professional liar." When Pauling applied for a passport,
his old nemesis Ruth Shipley again recommended denial. He received his passport only after swearing in writing and in her
presence that he was not a Communist.
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Linus Pauling's Passport
- 1953
Linus Pauling swears he is not a communist to Ruth Shipley.
- February 25, 1953
"It is disgraceful that a committee of the United States Congress should permit and even aid such a scurvy unconscionable
person to cause trouble for respectable people. If Budenz is not prosecuted for perjury we must conclude that our courts and
Congressional committees are not interested in learning and disclosing the truth."
- Linus Pauling. December 23, 1952
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