Abraham Chasanow

Abraham Chasanow

Abraham Chasanow (December 1, 1910 – June 11, 1989) was suspended from the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office as a security risk in July 1953, during the period of McCarthyism in the United States, in part for activities related to the founding of the cooperative Greenbelt Veteran Housing Corporation at his home in Greenbelt, Maryland. During highly publicized hearings, the Navy did not produce evidence to support the charge and his accusers were never identified. Chasanow was cleared of all charges thirteen months later. In 1954, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) James H. Smith, Jr. issued a formal apology to Chasanow.

In 1955 investigative reporter Anthony Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles describing the Chasanow case. The case was also the subject of a 1957 movie Three Brave Men starring Ray Milland and Ernest Borgnine.[1][2]

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