Deadly Farce:: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy EraNo issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Deadly Farce presents Harvey Matusow, a young Bronx ''wise guy'' who became a Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era until he recanted his testimony. His story illuminates a disturbing time in American history, one with renewed relevance