If I may interrupt here for a second, what point in your career did you become connected

with the Reese Committee?

1953.

1953.

Yeah.

And what was that capacity, sir?

That was a capacity of what they call director of research for the Reese Committee.

Can you tell us what the Reese Committee was attempting to do?

Yes, I can tell you.

It was operating and carrying out instructions and bodies in a resolution passed by the

House of Representatives, which was to investigate the activities of foundations as to whether

or not these activities could justifiably be labeled un-American.

I might say defining what they meant by un-American.

But that was the resolution and the committee had then the task of selecting a council and

the council in turn had the task of selecting a staff and he had to have somebody who would

direct the work of that staff.

And that was what they meant by the director of research.

What were some of the details, the specifics that you told the committee at that time?

Well, Mr. Griffin, in that report, I specifically, number one, defined what was to us, what was

meant by the phrase un-American.

We defined that in our way as being a determination to effect changes in the country by unconstitutional

means.

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