What have people said about this story?

"The Matusow testimony to anyone who will listen places a bouquet of forget-me-nots on the grave of McCarthy.  The ridiculousness of whole silly series of investigations now becomes apparent...  Matusow will have a much greater effect than he knows...  We cannot know for sure why Matusow did any of it; whether, as some say, it was a deep plot all along or whether--as he himself says--to make a buck.  But his testimony and retestimony may well be the little push which causes the pendulum of common sense to swing back."

- John Steinbeck, Saturday Review, 1955

"Though no single story can encompass every element of [McCarthism's repression], that of Clinton Jencks comes close.  His experiences and those of the people who both worked with him and persecuted him reveal the dense web of personal and institutional relationships that constituted the interconnected worlds of American Communism and anticommunism."

- Ellen Schrecker, Many Are The Crimes, 1998