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Article: OWEN LATTIMORE, MCCARTHY TARGET, DIES IN PAWTUCKET
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 1, 1989
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PAWTUCKET - Owen Lattimore, a China scholar who was accused by
Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1950 of being "the top Soviet espionage
agent in the United States," died yesterday in Pawtucket. He was 88.
Mr. Lattimore, who suffered a stroke last year, had been in
failing health the past two weeks, relatives said.
Mr. Lattimore, who grew up in China, spent nearly 25 years in
the Far East. From 1934 to 1941, he edited Pacific Affairs, a
journal of the Institute of Pacific Relations, an international
organization concerned with the Pacific region.
He was director of the Walter Hines Page School of
International Relations at Johns Hopkins University from 1939 to
1953 and lectured at Johns ...