I'm not saying he deserved the hearing, which was indeed a farce (punctuated by illegal things like Strauss and the FBI wiretapping his confidential conversations with his lawyer), but it's more than "they didn't like his political opinions." The guy did some legit sketchy stuff!
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I’m less sure about this, partly because the culture of membership denial ran so deep and was such an important tactical defence. This kind of indeterminacy was carefully maintained which not to say I think JRO was a member but the vagueness is handy.
Chevalier had no problem in essentially implicating himself and many other members of the "discussion group" — it is only JRO that he gives a special, "not really a member" status to. I think that is significant, esp. since this was after JRO's death.
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I suspect if Chevalier thought JRO was a clean-cut member (or at least as clean-cut as Chevalier considered himself, which is not too clean-cut) he would have said so. Which is to say, my read is that JRO probably deliberately avoided crossing any kind of clear "membership" line.
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Which again, just to be clear: Chevalier is definitely wishy-washing on the status of the "discussion group," but it is clear he thinks that he and most of the others crossed a line into a sort of CP membership, but on JRO there are several differences, e.g. the lack of dues.
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Really interesting, thanks Alex ... I'll send an email with something I came across re JRO and Unit 122. Apols, Audra, for this tangent on your thread!
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No worries, it’s all fascinating!
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