Tail Gunner Joe Sets His Sights on Fort Monmouth and the Signal Corps

October 20, 1953
Sen. Joe McCarthy, right, Secretary of Army Robert T. Stevens, second from right, and New Jersey congressmen leave the Evans Signal Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J., Oct. 20, 1953, where they had been investigating possible security leaks at the Army Signal Corps Radar Laboratories. At the gate are, left to right: Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton; Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.); Rep. James C. Auchincloss (R-N.J.); Maj. Gen. George I. Back, chief of the Army Signal Corps; Stevens and McCarthy. McCarthy told newsmen he hopes to find new leads for purported spy ring operating within the radar center. (AP Photo)
Sen. Joe McCarthy, right, Secretary of Army Robert T. Stevens, second from right, and New Jersey congressmen leave the Evans Signal Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J., Oct. 20, 1953, where they had been investigating possible security leaks at the Army Signal Corps Radar Laboratories. At the gate are, left to right: Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton; Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.); Rep. James C. Auchincloss (R-N.J.); Maj. Gen. George I. Back, chief of the Army Signal Corps; Stevens and McCarthy. McCarthy told newsmen he hopes to find new leads for purported spy ring operating within the radar center. (AP Photo)