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fhe Joint .nti-Fascist Refugee Committee has been the Attorney General of the United States as an b cited by ithin the purview of Executive Order No. 9835. organization w Miscellaneous =“ The "New York Times," New York City. issue of June 9, 1949, contains an article captioned "Hundreds Named As Red Appeasgrs-California's Tenney Committes Lists Actors, Musteians and Others As tLine’ Followers." This article listed #rank Sinatra as one of the individuals named by the Committee as a follower of the Communist Party line. The news article quoted Sinatrats answer to his listing by the Committee which was an emphatic denial of the truth of the Committee's findings. 4A confidentiel und reliable informant sdvised that at a meeting of the Hollywood Motion Picture Film Council, in Januery, 1949, Dore Schary of Metro-Goldwyn Studios stated that Frank Pay, stage actor, had attacked Commnism in the Motion Picture Industry at a “recent” publie meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, at which time Fay named Prank Sinatra, and one other individual, as being Communists or Communist fellow travelers. Informant advised Schary attempted to discredit Fay's reliability, stating such comments were hurting the industry and urging the council to come to the defense of Sinatra and the other individual named. Informant releted that others present at the meeting tock issue with Schary's proposal on the ground that the industry was badly infiltrated and that individuals with Communist leanings were dengerous and should be cleaned out of the industry. The Hollywood Motion Picture Pilim Council was established during 1948 after the House Un-American Activities _.. Committee hearings on Communism in Hollywood and was created -. . for the purpese of improving public relations in the film + industry. (1060-35e56e-4, p. 21)