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Excerpt from Western Section of the Southern California District of the Communist Party, Vol. 1: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, First Session; October 20, 1959
In the course of the hearings the committee obtained a wealth of information on contemporary Communist tactics. Particularly valu able testimony was presented by Mrs. Moiselle J. Clin er, Marion Miller, and Mrs. Adele Kronick Silva, all of W cm had served as undercover operatives for the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion within Communist Party units in western Los Angeles County. Mrs. Clinger, of Santa Monica, had served in the Communist Party from 1942 until 1956; Mrs. Miller, of West Los Angeles, was in party activities from 1952 until late 1955; while Mrs. Silva, now living in Oakland, had worked with Communists in West Los Angeles in 1950. The committee also heard testimony on recent internal prob lems of the Communist Party from Harper Poulson, of los Angeles, who left the party in January 1957 in disagreement with certain Of its policies. Mr. Poulson invoked the privilege of the fifth amend ment against self-incrimination, however, when questioned regarding other individuals active in the Communist conspiracy.
Startling illustrations Of Communist efforts to enter and in?uence non-communist organizations and institutions were presented in the course of the hearings, which also included testimony on the mechanics by which Communists have set up their own front organizations to lure support from non-communist Californians. The testimony furthermore revealed various tactics by which the party protected its conspirators from possible legal consequences of membership. A multitude of Communist techniques for raising funds for the party's work were also described in striking detail.
These tactics and techniques were revealed not only by those wit nesses who testified fully, but were disclosed by indirection from the fragmentary testimony elicited from the some two dozen witnesses the committee had subpenaed for the hearings who are currently, or were recently, engaged in Communist activities in the Western Section Of the Southern California District of the Communist Party.
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