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href="#Standing_Committee_(1945–1975)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2</span> <span>Standing Committee (1945–1975)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Standing_Committee_(1945–1975)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hollywood_blacklist" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hollywood_blacklist"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>Hollywood blacklist</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hollywood_blacklist-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Whittaker_Chambers_and_Alger_Hiss" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Whittaker_Chambers_and_Alger_Hiss"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Whittaker_Chambers_and_Alger_Hiss-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Decline" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Decline"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>Decline</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Decline-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Termination" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Termination"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Termination</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Termination-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chairmen" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chairmen"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Chairmen</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chairmen-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_members" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> 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class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Archives" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Archives"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Archives</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Archives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Books" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Books"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Books</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Books-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Articles" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Articles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Articles</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Articles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet 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антыамерыканскай дзейнасці – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Камісія па расследаванню антыамерыканскай дзейнасці" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="House Un-American Activities Committee" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%BDbor_pro_neamerickou_%C4%8Dinnost" title="Výbor pro neamerickou činnost – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Výbor pro neamerickou činnost" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="House Un-American Activities Committee" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitee_f%C3%BCr_unamerikanische_Umtriebe" title="Komitee für unamerikanische Umtriebe – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Komitee für unamerikanische Umtriebe" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%AE_%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%94%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%AE%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD" title="Επιτροπή Αντιαμερικανικών Δραστηριοτήτων – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Επιτροπή Αντιαμερικανικών Δραστηριοτήτων" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_de_Actividades_Antiestadounidenses" title="Comité de Actividades Antiestadounidenses – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Comité de Actividades Antiestadounidenses" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitato_pri_Kontra%C5%ADusona_Aktiveco" title="Komitato pri Kontraŭusona Aktiveco – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Komitato pri Kontraŭusona Aktiveco" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%87_%D9%81%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%B6%D8%AF%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3" title="کمیته فعالیت‌های ضدآمریکایی مجلس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کمیته فعالیت‌های ضدآمریکایی مجلس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_des_activit%C3%A9s_antiam%C3%A9ricaines_de_la_Chambre_des_repr%C3%A9sentants" title="Commission des activités antiaméricaines de la Chambre des représentants – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Commission des activités antiaméricaines de la Chambre des représentants" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="House Un-American Activities Committee" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%84%EB%AF%B8_%ED%99%9C%EB%8F%99_%EC%9C%84%EC%9B%90%ED%9A%8C" title="비미 활동 위원회 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="비미 활동 위원회" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="House Un-American Activities Committee" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissione_per_le_attivit%C3%A0_antiamericane" title="Commissione per le attività antiamericane – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Commissione per le attività antiamericane" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%AA_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99-%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA" title="ועדת בית הנבחרים לפעילות אנטי-אמריקנית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ועדת בית הנבחרים לפעילות אנטי-אמריקנית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%97%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%97%E1%83%90_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="თემთა პალატის არაამერიკული საქმიანობის კომიტეტი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="თემთა პალატის არაამერიკული საქმიანობის კომიტეტი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neamerikieti%C5%A1kos_veiklos_tyrimo_komitetas" title="Neamerikietiškos veiklos tyrimo komitetas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Neamerikietiškos veiklos tyrimo komitetas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika-ellenes_tev%C3%A9kenys%C3%A9get_vizsg%C3%A1l%C3%B3_bizotts%C3%A1g" title="Amerika-ellenes tevékenységet vizsgáló bizottság – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Amerika-ellenes tevékenységet vizsgáló bizottság" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities" title="House Committee on Un-American Activities – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="House Committee on Un-American Activities" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" 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Roosevelt">President Roosevelt</a>'s attack on the committee.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>House Committee on Un-American Activities</b> (<b>HCUA</b>), popularly the <b>House Un-American Activities Committee</b> (<b>HUAC</b>), was an investigative <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congressional_committee" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Congressional committee">committee</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> ties. It became a standing (permanent) committee in 1946, and from 1969 onwards it was known as the <b>House Committee on Internal Security</b>. When the House abolished the committee in 1975,<sup id="cite_ref-&#39;70s_265_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-&#39;70s_265-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> its functions were transferred to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States House Committee on the Judiciary">House Judiciary Committee</a>. </p><p>The committee's anti-communist investigations are often associated with <a href="/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a>, although <a href="/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy">Joseph McCarthy</a> himself (as a <a href="/wiki/U.S._Senator" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senator">U.S. Senator</a>) had no direct involvement with the House committee.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy was the chairman of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Homeland_Security_and_Governmental_Affairs" title="United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs">Government Operations Committee</a> and its <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Homeland_Security_Permanent_Subcommittee_on_Investigations" title="United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations">Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations</a> of the U.S. Senate, not the House. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Precursors_to_the_committee">Precursors to the committee</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Precursors to the committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Overman_Committee_(1918–1919)"><span id="Overman_Committee_.281918.E2.80.931919.29"></span>Overman Committee (1918–1919)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Overman Committee (1918–1919)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lee_salter_overman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Lee_salter_overman.jpg/220px-Lee_salter_overman.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="358" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Lee_salter_overman.jpg/330px-Lee_salter_overman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Lee_salter_overman.jpg/440px-Lee_salter_overman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="610" data-file-height="994" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lee_Slater_Overman" class="mw-redirect" title="Lee Slater Overman">Lee Slater Overman</a> headed the first congressional investigation of American communism back in 1919.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Overman_Committee" title="Overman Committee">Overman Committee</a> was a subcommittee of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> chaired by <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Lee_Slater_Overman" class="mw-redirect" title="Lee Slater Overman">Lee Slater Overman</a> that operated from September 1918 to June 1919. The subcommittee investigated German as well as "<a href="/wiki/Bolshevik" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolshevik">Bolshevik</a> elements" in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-schmidt136_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schmidt136-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>This subcommittee was originally concerned with investigating pro-German sentiments in the American liquor industry. After <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> ended in November 1918, and the German threat lessened, the subcommittee began investigating Bolshevism, which had appeared as a threat during the <a href="/wiki/First_Red_Scare" title="First Red Scare">First Red Scare</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a> in 1917. The subcommittee's hearing into Bolshevik propaganda, conducted February 11 to March 10, 1919, had a decisive role in constructing an image of a radical threat to the United States during the first Red Scare.<sup id="cite_ref-schmidt144_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schmidt144-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fish_Committee_(1930)"><span id="Fish_Committee_.281930.29"></span>Fish Committee (1930)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Fish Committee (1930)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/U.S._Representative" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Representative">U.S. Representative</a> <a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Fish_III" title="Hamilton Fish III">Hamilton Fish III</a> (R-NY), who was a fervent anti-communist, introduced, on May 5, 1930, House Resolution 180, which proposed to establish a committee to investigate communist activities in the United States. The resulting committee, Special Committee to Investigate Communist Activities in the United States commonly known as the Fish Committee, undertook extensive investigations of people and organizations suspected of being involved with or supporting communist activities in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Among the committee's targets were the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union" title="American Civil Liberties Union">American Civil Liberties Union</a> and communist presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/William_Z._Foster" title="William Z. Foster">William Z. Foster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The committee recommended granting the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> more authority to investigate communists, and strengthening of immigration and deportation laws to keep communists out of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="McCormack–Dickstein_Committee_(1934–1937)"><span id="McCormack.E2.80.93Dickstein_Committee_.281934.E2.80.931937.29"></span>McCormack–Dickstein Committee (1934–1937)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: McCormack–Dickstein Committee (1934–1937)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1934 to 1937, the committee, now named the Special Committee on Un-American Activities Authorized to Investigate Nazi Propaganda and Certain Other Propaganda Activities, chaired by <a href="/wiki/John_William_McCormack" class="mw-redirect" title="John William McCormack">John William McCormack</a> (<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">D</a>-<a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Mass.</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Dickstein_(congressman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel Dickstein (congressman)">Samuel Dickstein</a> (D-NY), held public and private hearings and collected testimony filling 4,300 pages. The Special Committee was widely known as the McCormack–Dickstein committee. Its mandate was to get "information on how foreign subversive propaganda entered the U.S. and the organizations that were spreading it." Its records are held by the <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a> as records related to HUAC.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1934, the Special Committee subpoenaed most of the leaders of the fascist movement in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Beginning in November 1934, the committee investigated allegations of a <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a> plot to seize the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a>, known as the "<a href="/wiki/Business_Plot" title="Business Plot">Business Plot</a>". Contemporary newspapers widely reported the plot as a hoax.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt112234_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt112234-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While historians have questioned whether a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated and discussed.<sup id="cite_ref-Fox_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fox-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>It has been reported that while Dickstein served on this committee and the subsequent Special investigation Committee, he was paid $1,250 a month by the Soviet <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a>, which hoped to get secret congressional information on anti-communists and pro-fascists. A 1939 NKVD report stated Dickstein handed over "materials on the war budget for 1940, records of conferences of the budget subcommission, reports of the war minister, chief of staff and etc." However the NKVD was dissatisfied with the amount of information provided by Dickstein, after he was not appointed to HUAC to "carry out measures planned by us together with him." Dickstein unsuccessfully attempted to expedite the deportation of Soviet defector <a href="/wiki/Walter_Krivitsky" title="Walter Krivitsky">Walter Krivitsky</a>, while the Dies Committee kept him in the country. Dickstein stopped receiving NKVD payments in February 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dies_Committee_(1938–1944)"><span id="Dies_Committee_.281938.E2.80.931944.29"></span>Dies Committee (1938–1944)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Dies Committee (1938–1944)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:370403-Dies-Martin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/370403-Dies-Martin.jpg/220px-370403-Dies-Martin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/370403-Dies-Martin.jpg/330px-370403-Dies-Martin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/370403-Dies-Martin.jpg/440px-370403-Dies-Martin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1946" data-file-height="2400" /></a><figcaption>Texas Democrat <a href="/wiki/Martin_Dies_Jr." title="Martin Dies Jr.">Martin Dies Jr.</a> served as chair of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, predecessor to the permanent committee, for its entire seven-year duration.</figcaption></figure> <p>On May 26, 1938, the House Committee on Un-American Activities was established as a special investigating committee, reorganized from its previous incarnations as the Fish Committee and the McCormack–Dickstein Committee, to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist or fascist ties; however, it concentrated its efforts on communists.<sup id="cite_ref-Finkelman2006_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finkelman2006-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was chaired by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Dies_Jr." title="Martin Dies Jr.">Martin Dies Jr.</a> (D-Tex.), and therefore known as the Dies Committee. Its records are held by the <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10459812" class="extiw" title="nara:10459812">National Archives and Records Administration</a> as records related to HUAC. </p><p>In 1938, <a href="/wiki/Hallie_Flanagan" title="Hallie Flanagan">Hallie Flanagan</a>, the head of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Theatre_Project" title="Federal Theatre Project">Federal Theatre Project</a>, was subpoenaed to appear before the committee to answer the charge the project was overrun with communists. Flanagan was called to testify for only a part of one day, while an administrative clerk from the project was called in for two entire days. It was during this investigation that one of the committee members, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Starnes" title="Joe Starnes">Joe Starnes</a> (D-Ala.), famously asked Flanagan whether the English <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_era" title="Elizabethan era">Elizabethan era</a> playwright <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a> was a member of the Communist Party, and mused that ancient Greek tragedian "<a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Mr. Euripides</a>" preached <a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class warfare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1939, the committee investigated people involved with pro-Nazi organizations such as <a href="/wiki/Oscar_C._Pfaus" title="Oscar C. Pfaus">Oscar C. Pfaus</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley" title="George Van Horn Moseley">George Van Horn Moseley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-investig6204_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-investig6204-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Levy_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Levy-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Moseley testified before the committee for five hours about a "Jewish Communist conspiracy" to take control of the US government. Moseley was supported by Donald Shea of the <a href="/wiki/National_Gentile_League" title="National Gentile League">American Gentile League</a>, whose statement was deleted from the public record as the committee found it so objectionable.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The committee also put together an argument for the <a href="/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans" title="Internment of Japanese Americans">internment of Japanese Americans</a> known as the "Yellow Report".<sup id="cite_ref-myer_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myer-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Organized in response to rumors of Japanese Americans being coddled by the <a href="/wiki/War_Relocation_Authority" title="War Relocation Authority">War Relocation Authority</a> (WRA) and news that some former inmates would be allowed to leave camp and <a href="/wiki/Nisei" title="Nisei">Nisei</a> soldiers to return to the West Coast, the committee investigated charges of <a href="/wiki/Fifth_column" title="Fifth column">fifth column</a> activity in the camps. A number of anti-WRA arguments were presented in subsequent hearings, but Director <a href="/wiki/Dillon_S._Myer" title="Dillon S. Myer">Dillon Myer</a> debunked the more inflammatory claims.<sup id="cite_ref-niiya_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-niiya-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The investigation was presented to the 77th Congress, and alleged that certain cultural traits – Japanese loyalty to the Emperor, the number of Japanese fishermen in the US, and the Buddhist faith – were evidence for Japanese espionage. With the exception of Rep. <a href="/wiki/Herman_P._Eberharter" title="Herman P. Eberharter">Herman Eberharter</a> (D-Pa.), the members of the committee seemed to support internment, and its recommendations to expedite the impending <a href="/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans#Loyalty_questions_and_segregation" title="Internment of Japanese Americans">segregation</a> of "troublemakers", establish a system to investigate applicants for leave clearance, and step up Americanization and assimilation efforts largely coincided with WRA goals.<sup id="cite_ref-myer_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-myer-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-niiya_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-niiya-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1946, the committee considered opening investigations into the <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>, but decided against doing so, prompting white supremacist committee member <a href="/wiki/John_E._Rankin" title="John E. Rankin">John E. Rankin</a> (D-Miss.) to remark, "After all, the KKK is an old American institution."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Instead of the Klan, HUAC concentrated on investigating the possibility that the American Communist Party had infiltrated the <a href="/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration" title="Works Progress Administration">Works Progress Administration</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Theatre_Project" title="Federal Theatre Project">Federal Theatre Project</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Writers%27_Project" title="Federal Writers&#39; Project">Federal Writers' Project</a>. Twenty years later, in 1965–1966, however, the committee did conduct an investigation into Klan activities under chairman <a href="/wiki/Edwin_E._Willis" title="Edwin E. Willis">Edwin Willis</a> (D-La.).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Standing_Committee_(1945–1975)"><span id="Standing_Committee_.281945.E2.80.931975.29"></span>Standing Committee (1945–1975)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Standing Committee (1945–1975)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:3909-walter-francis-e.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/3909-walter-francis-e.jpg/220px-3909-walter-francis-e.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/3909-walter-francis-e.jpg/330px-3909-walter-francis-e.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/3909-walter-francis-e.jpg/440px-3909-walter-francis-e.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3555" data-file-height="4440" /></a><figcaption>Democrat <a href="/wiki/Francis_E._Walter" title="Francis E. Walter">Francis E. Walter</a> of Pennsylvania was chair of HUAC from 1955 until his death in 1963.</figcaption></figure> <p>The House Committee on Un-American Activities became a standing (permanent) committee on January 3, 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Democratic Representative <a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Hart" title="Edward J. Hart">Edward J. Hart</a> of New Jersey became the committee's first chairman.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Under the mandate of Public Law 601, passed by the <a href="/wiki/79th_United_States_Congress" title="79th United States Congress">79th Congress</a>, the committee of nine representatives investigated suspected threats of subversion or propaganda that attacked "the form of government as guaranteed by our <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">Constitution</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under this mandate, the committee focused its investigations on real and suspected communists in positions of actual or supposed influence in the United States society. A significant step for HUAC was its investigation of the charges of espionage brought against <a href="/wiki/Alger_Hiss" title="Alger Hiss">Alger Hiss</a> in 1948. This investigation ultimately resulted in Hiss's trial and conviction for perjury, and convinced many of the usefulness of congressional committees for uncovering communist subversion.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The chief investigator was <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Stripling" title="Robert E. Stripling">Robert E. Stripling</a>, senior investigator <a href="/wiki/Louis_J._Russell" title="Louis J. Russell">Louis J. Russell</a>, and investigators <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Williams_Stokes" title="Alvin Williams Stokes">Alvin Williams Stokes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Courtney_E._Owens" title="Courtney E. Owens">Courtney E. Owens</a>, and Donald T. Appell. The director of research was <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Mandel" title="Benjamin Mandel">Benjamin Mandel</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hollywood_blacklist">Hollywood blacklist</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Hollywood blacklist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist" title="Hollywood blacklist">Hollywood blacklist</a></div> <p>In 1947, the committee held nine days of hearings into alleged communist propaganda and influence in the <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Hollywood</a> motion picture industry. After conviction on <a href="/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress" title="Contempt of Congress">contempt of Congress</a> charges for refusal to answer some questions posed by committee members, "<a href="/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#The_Hollywood_Ten" title="Hollywood blacklist">The Hollywood Ten</a>" were <a href="/wiki/Blacklisting" title="Blacklisting">blacklisted</a> by the industry. Eventually, more than 300 artists – including directors, radio commentators, actors, and particularly screenwriters – were boycotted by the studios. Some, like <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Lomax" title="Alan Lomax">Alan Lomax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yip_Harburg" title="Yip Harburg">Yip Harburg</a>, left the U.S or went underground to find work. Others like <a href="/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a> wrote under <a href="/wiki/Pen_name" title="Pen name">pseudonyms</a> or the names of colleagues. Only about ten percent succeeded in rebuilding careers within the entertainment industry.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>In 1947, studio executives told the committee that wartime films—such as <i><a href="/wiki/Mission_to_Moscow" title="Mission to Moscow">Mission to Moscow</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_North_Star_(1943_film)" title="The North Star (1943 film)">The North Star</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Russia" title="Song of Russia">Song of Russia</a></i>—could be considered pro-Soviet <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>, but claimed that the films were valuable in the context of the Allied war effort, and that they were made (in the case of <i>Mission to Moscow</i>) at the request of White House officials. In response to the House investigations, most studios produced a number of anti-communist and anti-Soviet propaganda films such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Menace_(film)" title="The Red Menace (film)">The Red Menace</a></i> (August 1949), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Danube" title="The Red Danube">The Red Danube</a></i> (October 1949), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Woman_on_Pier_13" title="The Woman on Pier 13">The Woman on Pier 13</a></i> (October 1949), <i><a href="/wiki/Guilty_of_Treason" title="Guilty of Treason">Guilty of Treason</a></i> (May 1950, about the ordeal and trial of <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a> <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Mindszenty" title="József Mindszenty">József Mindszenty</a>), <i><a href="/wiki/I_Was_a_Communist_for_the_FBI" title="I Was a Communist for the FBI">I Was a Communist for the FBI</a></i> (May 1951, Academy Award nominated for best documentary 1951, also serialized for radio), <i><a href="/wiki/Red_Planet_Mars" title="Red Planet Mars">Red Planet Mars</a></i> (May 1952), and <a href="/wiki/John_Wayne" title="John Wayne">John Wayne</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Big_Jim_McLain" title="Big Jim McLain">Big Jim McLain</a></i> (August 1952).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Universal-International_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal-International Pictures">Universal-International Pictures</a> was the only major studio that did not purposefully produce such a film. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Whittaker_Chambers_and_Alger_Hiss">Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Whittaker_Chambers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Whittaker_Chambers.jpg/220px-Whittaker_Chambers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Whittaker_Chambers.jpg/330px-Whittaker_Chambers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Whittaker_Chambers.jpg/440px-Whittaker_Chambers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2099" data-file-height="2790" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers" title="Whittaker Chambers">Whittaker Chambers</a> in 1948</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alger_Hiss_(1950).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Alger_Hiss_%281950%29.jpg/220px-Alger_Hiss_%281950%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Alger_Hiss_%281950%29.jpg/330px-Alger_Hiss_%281950%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Alger_Hiss_%281950%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Alger_Hiss" title="Alger Hiss">Alger Hiss</a> in 1950</figcaption></figure> <p>On July 31, 1948, the committee heard testimony from <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley" title="Elizabeth Bentley">Elizabeth Bentley</a>, an American who had been working as a Soviet agent in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>. Among those whom she named as communists was <a href="/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White" title="Harry Dexter White">Harry Dexter White</a>, a senior U.S. Treasury department official. The committee subpoenaed <a href="/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers" title="Whittaker Chambers">Whittaker Chambers</a> on August 3, 1948. Chambers, too, was a former Soviet spy, by then a senior editor of <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Chambers named more than a half dozen government officials including White as well as <a href="/wiki/Alger_Hiss" title="Alger Hiss">Alger Hiss</a> (and Hiss' brother Donald). Most of these former officials refused to answer committee questions, citing the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fifth Amendment</a>. White denied the allegations, and died of a heart attack a few days later. Hiss also denied all charges; doubts about his testimony though, especially those expressed by freshman Congressman <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, led to further investigation that strongly suggested Hiss had made a number of false statements. </p><p>Hiss challenged Chambers to repeat his charges outside a Congressional committee, which Chambers did. Hiss then sued for libel, leading Chambers to produce copies of State Department documents which he claimed Hiss had given him in 1938. Hiss denied this before a grand jury, was indicted for perjury, and subsequently convicted and imprisoned.<sup id="cite_ref-Witness_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Witness-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Perjury_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perjury-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The present-day House of Representatives website on HUAC states, "But in the 1990s, Soviet archives conclusively revealed that Hiss had been a spy on the Kremlin's payroll."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in the 1990s, senior Soviet intelligence officials, after consulting their archive, stated they found nothing to support that theory.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1995, the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Venona_project" title="Venona project">Venona</a> papers have been alleged to have provided overwhelming evidence that he was a spy, but the same evidence is also judged to be not only not overwhelming but entirely circumstantial.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result, and also given how many documents remain classified, it is unlikely that a truly conclusive answer will ever be reached.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decline">Decline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ichord-Richard-1969.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/Ichord-Richard-1969.jpg/220px-Ichord-Richard-1969.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/Ichord-Richard-1969.jpg/330px-Ichord-Richard-1969.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Ichord-Richard-1969.jpg 2x" data-file-width="437" data-file-height="554" /></a><figcaption>Democrat <a href="/wiki/Richard_Howard_Ichord_Jr." title="Richard Howard Ichord Jr.">Richard Howard Ichord Jr.</a> of Missouri was chair of the renamed House Internal Security Committee from 1969 until its termination in January 1975.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the wake of the downfall of McCarthy (who never served in the House, nor on HUAC; he was a U.S. Senator), the prestige of HUAC began a gradual decline in the late 1950s. By 1959, the committee was being denounced by former President <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> as the "most un-American thing in the country today".<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Women_Strike_for_Peace" title="Women Strike for Peace">Women Strike for Peace</a> played a crucial role in bringing down the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">House Un-American Activities Committee</a> (HUAC).<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1960, the committee held hearings in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_City_Hall" title="San Francisco City Hall">San Francisco City Hall</a> which led to the infamous riot on May 13, when <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Police_Department" title="San Francisco Police Department">city police officers</a> fire-hosed protesting students from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">UC Berkeley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford</a>, and other local colleges, and dragged them down the marble steps beneath the rotunda, leaving some seriously injured.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Soviet affairs expert <a href="/wiki/William_Mandel" title="William Mandel">William Mandel</a>, who had been subpoenaed to testify, angrily denounced the committee and the police in a <a href="/wiki/William_Mandel#Senator_McCarthy_and_the_House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="William Mandel">blistering statement</a> which was aired repeatedly for years thereafter on <a href="/wiki/Pacifica_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacifica Radio">Pacifica Radio</a> station <a href="/wiki/KPFA" title="KPFA">KPFA</a> in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a>. An <a href="/wiki/Anti-communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-communist">anti-communist</a> propaganda film, <i>Operation Abolition</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was produced by the committee from subpoenaed local news reports, and shown around the country during 1960 and 1961. In response, the Northern California <a href="/wiki/ACLU" class="mw-redirect" title="ACLU">ACLU</a> produced a film called <i>Operation Correction</i>, which discussed falsehoods in the first film. Scenes from the hearings and protest were later featured in the Academy Award-nominated 1990 documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Berkeley_in_the_Sixties" title="Berkeley in the Sixties">Berkeley in the Sixties</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>The committee lost considerable prestige as the 1960s progressed, increasingly becoming the target of political satirists and the defiance of a new generation of political activists. HUAC subpoenaed <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Rubin" title="Jerry Rubin">Jerry Rubin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman" title="Abbie Hoffman">Abbie Hoffman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Youth_International_Party" title="Youth International Party">Yippies</a> in 1967, and again in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1968 Democratic National Convention">1968 Democratic National Convention</a>. The Yippies used the media attention to make a mockery of the proceedings. Rubin came to one session dressed as a Revolutionary War soldier and passed out copies of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">United States Declaration of Independence</a> to those in attendance. Rubin then "blew giant gum bubbles, while his co-witnesses taunted the committee with <a href="/wiki/Nazi_salute" title="Nazi salute">Nazi salutes</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Rubin attended another session dressed as <a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus" title="Santa Claus">Santa Claus</a>. On another occasion, police stopped Hoffman at the building entrance and arrested him for wearing the United States flag. Hoffman quipped to the press, "I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country", paraphrasing the last words of revolutionary patriot <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Hale" title="Nathan Hale">Nathan Hale</a>; Rubin, who was wearing a matching <a href="/wiki/Viet_Cong" title="Viet Cong">Viet Cong</a> flag, shouted that the police were communists for not arresting him as well.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1965, Klan violence prompted President <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> and Georgia congressman <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Weltner" title="Charles L. Weltner">Charles L. Weltner</a> to call for a congressional probe of the Ku Klux Klan. The resulting investigation resulted in numerous Klansmen remaining silent and giving evasive answers. The House of Representatives voted to cite seven Klan leaders, including <a href="/wiki/Robert_Shelton_(Ku_Klux_Klan)" title="Robert Shelton (Ku Klux Klan)">Robert Shelton</a>, for contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over Klan records. Shelton was found guilty, and was sentenced to one year in prison, plus a $1,000 fine. Following his conviction, three other Klan leaders, Robert Scoggin, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Jones_(Grand_Dragon)" title="Bob Jones (Grand Dragon)">Bob Jones</a>, and Calvin Craig, also pleaded guilty. Scoggin and Jones were each sentenced to one year in prison, while Craig was fined $1,000.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The charges against Marshall Kornegay, Robert Hudgins, and George Dorsett, were later dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hearings in August 1966 called to investigate anti-Vietnam War activities were disrupted by hundreds of protesters, many from the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Labor_Party_(United_States)" title="Progressive Labor Party (United States)">Progressive Labor Party</a>. The committee faced witnesses who were openly defiant.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT81766_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT81766-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5R_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5R-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson" title="The Harvard Crimson">The Harvard Crimson</a></i>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In the fifties, the most effective sanction was terror. Almost any publicity from HUAC meant the 'blacklist'. Without a chance to clear his name, a witness would suddenly find himself without friends and without a job. But it is not easy to see how in 1969, a HUAC blacklist could terrorize an <a href="/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society" title="Students for a Democratic Society">SDS</a> activist. Witnesses like Jerry Rubin have openly boasted of their contempt for American institutions. A subpoena from HUAC would be unlikely to scandalize Abbie Hoffman or his friends.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In an attempt to reinvent itself, the committee was renamed as the Internal Security Committee in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStaples2006284_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStaples2006284-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Termination">Termination</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Termination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The House Committee on Internal Security was formally terminated on January 14, 1975, the day of the opening of the 94th Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-Records_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Records-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The committee's files and staff were transferred on that day to the House Judiciary Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-Records_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Records-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chairmen">Chairmen</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Chairmen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Dies_Jr." title="Martin Dies Jr.">Martin Dies Jr.</a>, (D-Tex.), 1938–1944</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Hart" title="Edward J. Hart">Edward J. Hart</a> (D-N.J.), 1945–1946</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Parnell_Thomas" title="J. Parnell Thomas">J. Parnell Thomas</a> (R-N.J.), 1947–1948</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stephens_Wood" title="John Stephens Wood">John Stephens Wood</a> (D-Ga.), 1949–1953</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_H._Velde" title="Harold H. Velde">Harold H. Velde</a> (R-Ill.), 1953–1955</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_E._Walter" title="Francis E. Walter">Francis E. Walter</a> (D-Pa.), 1955–1963</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_E._Willis" title="Edwin E. Willis">Edwin E. Willis</a> (D-La.), 1963–1969</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Howard_Ichord_Jr." title="Richard Howard Ichord Jr.">Richard Howard Ichord Jr.</a> (D-Mo.), 1969–1975</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_members">Notable members</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Notable members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a complete list of members, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee">List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/F._Edward_H%C3%A9bert" title="F. Edward Hébert">Felix Edward Hébert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_L._Jackson" title="Donald L. Jackson">Donald L. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noah_M._Mason" title="Noah M. Mason">Noah M. Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_E._Mundt" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl E. Mundt">Karl E. Mundt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_E._Rankin" title="John E. Rankin">John E. Rankin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_H._Scherer" title="Gordon H. Scherer">Gordon H. Scherer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_B._Vail" title="Richard B. Vail">Richard B. Vail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Voorhis" title="Jerry Voorhis">Jerry Voorhis</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/California_Senate_Factfinding_Subcommittee_on_Un-American_Activities" title="California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities">California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defending_Dissent_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Defending Dissent Foundation">Defending Dissent Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_S._Montgomery" title="Edward S. Montgomery">Edward S. Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover" title="J. Edgar Hoover">J. Edgar Hoover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loyalty_oath" title="Loyalty oath">Loyalty oath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lusk_Committee" title="Lusk Committee">Lusk Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manning_Johnson" title="Manning Johnson">Manning Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCarran_Internal_Security_Act" title="McCarran Internal Security Act">McCarran Internal Security Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mundt%E2%80%93Ferguson_Communist_Registration_Bill" title="Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill">Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mundt%E2%80%93Nixon_Bill" title="Mundt–Nixon Bill">Mundt–Nixon Bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">Red-baiting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subversive_Activities_Control_Board" title="Subversive Activities Control Board">Subversive Activities Control Board</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wilkinson_v._United_States" title="Wilkinson v. United States">Wilkinson v. United States</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Alice_Macia" title="Edith Alice Macia">Edith Alice Macia</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-&#39;70s_265-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-&#39;70s_265_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFrum2000" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Frum" title="David Frum">Frum, David</a> (2000). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/265"><i>How We Got Here: The '70s</i></a></span>. 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PL members shocked the inquisitors when they openly proclaimed their communist beliefs and then went on into long sharp detailed explanations, which didn't spare the HUAC Congressmen being called every name in the book.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Marxists.org&amp;rft.atitle=The+Five+Retreats%3A+A+History+of+the+Failure+of+the+Progressive+Labor+Party+CHAPTER+1%3A+PLP+AT+ITS+PRIME+1963%E2%80%931966&amp;rft.au=Jim+Dann+and+Hari+Dillon&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxists.org%2Fhistory%2Ferol%2F1960-1970%2F5retreats%2Fchapter1.htm%23bk05&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHouse+Un-American+Activities+Committee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGeogheghan1969" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Geoghegan" title="Thomas Geoghegan">Geogheghan, Thomas</a> (February 24, 1969). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/2/24/by-any-other-name-pthe-house/">"By Any Other Name. Brass Tacks"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson" title="The Harvard Crimson">The Harvard Crimson</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 25,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Harvard+Crimson&amp;rft.atitle=By+Any+Other+Name.+Brass+Tacks&amp;rft.date=1969-02-24&amp;rft.aulast=Geogheghan&amp;rft.aufirst=Thomas&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecrimson.com%2Farticle%2F1969%2F2%2F24%2Fby-any-other-name-pthe-house%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHouse+Un-American+Activities+Committee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStaples2006284-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStaples2006284_52-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStaples2006">Staples 2006</a>, p.&#160;284.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Records-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Records_53-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Records_53-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles E. Schamel, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/RecordsOfTheHouseUn-americanActivitiesCommittee-NaraFindingAid"><i>Records of the US House of Representatives, Record Group 233: Records of the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1945–1969 (Renamed the) House Internal Security Committee, 1969–1976.</i></a> Washington, DC: Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records, July 1995; p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Eric Bentley, <i>Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968.</i> New York: The Viking Press 1971; pp. 955–957.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Works_cited">Works cited</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Works cited"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStaples2006" class="citation book cs1">Staples, William G. (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sFv1ZltBhR0C&amp;pg=PA284"><i>Encyclopedia of Privacy</i></a>. Greenwood Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-08670-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-08670-0"><bdi>978-0-313-08670-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+Privacy&amp;rft.pub=Greenwood+Press&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-313-08670-0&amp;rft.aulast=Staples&amp;rft.aufirst=William+G.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DsFv1ZltBhR0C%26pg%3DPA284&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHouse+Un-American+Activities+Committee" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Archives">Archives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Archives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=diescommittee">Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States. Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives (1938–1944), Volumes 1–17 with Appendices.</a> University of Pennsylvania online gateway to Internet Archive and Hathi Trust.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=United%20States.%20Congress.%20House.%20Committee%20on%20Internal%20Security">United States House Committee on Internal Security</a> University of Pennsylvania online gateway to Internet Archive and Hathi Trust.</li> <li>Schamel, Gharles E. Inventory of records of the Special Committee on Un-American activities, 1938–1944 (the Dies committee). Center for Legislative Archives, <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a>. Washington, D.C., July 1995.</li> <li>Schamel, Gharles E. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/RecordsOfTheHouseUn-americanActivitiesCommittee-NaraFindingAid"><i>Records of the House Un-American Activities committee, 1945–1969, renamed the House Internal Security committee, 1969–1976.</i></a> Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C., July 1995.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShip,_Reuben2000" class="citation journal cs1">Ship, Reuben (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol3/investigator/investigator.html">"From the Archives: The Investigator (1954): A Radio Play by Reuben Ship"</a>. <i>The Journal for MultiMedia History</i>. <b>3</b>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Journal+for+MultiMedia+History&amp;rft.atitle=From+the+Archives%3A+The+Investigator+%281954%29%3A+A+Radio+Play+by+Reuben+Ship&amp;rft.volume=3&amp;rft.date=2000&amp;rft.au=Ship%2C+Reuben&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.albany.edu%2Fjmmh%2Fvol3%2Finvestigator%2Finvestigator.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHouse+Un-American+Activities+Committee" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBentley2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Bentley" title="Eric Bentley">Bentley, Eric</a>, ed. 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