In 1964 journalists charged that several Southern congressmen--particularly the North Carolina delegation--made the votes for the president's economic opportunity program contingent on the expulsion of Adam Yarmolinski from the administration of the program. These congressmen reportedly suspected Yarmolinski, a Jewish liberal of Russian descent, of subversion.
Concerns charges against Yarmolinsky, special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The basic charge was that he admitted to World War II Army security investigators that he had attended meetings of theYoung Communist League.