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dissenters except reds. The negro is but a mere pawn in the game. He will be the loser and the sufferer. Any victory he may win will be a pathetic one. White Americans will lose too because they wiil have lost their great heritage, the American Republic. ... There was a time when the NAACP believed in gradualism but the line has changed and today the NAACP is march- ing right down the avenue that the communists have are a a cm af Je Lae ~~ ae mapped out for them to take, ..." © ae } mo, Pths. Jafpkr2- Ue hb ener Bureau of Investigation with 20 years service, testified that the Communist Party, as part of its operation procedure, is out to smear all investigating committees, including this Special Education Committee, plus the F.B.I,, House Un-American Activities Committee, and the Senate Internal Security Committee. He stated that all of the witnesses at these hearings would be subject to smear. He stated that organizations listed as sub- versive always attempted to bring in people of good reputation and standing in the community, and used them as a front for the nefarious operation of the communist apparatus, It was his testimony that the Mississippi Council on Human Relations, the counterpart of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations—and both beholden to the Southern Regional Council~—dissolved itself immediately after subversive hearings were held by the Louisiana Legislative Council. The objective of the communist conspiracy was world domination, by force, including the United States, and the destruction of our government, Mr. Banister recited the duties of a Special Agent for the F,B.I., and paid extremely high compliments to the Bureau and Mr, J, Edgar Hoover, its director. He quoted Mr, Hoover as saying: "To dismiss lightly the existence of subversion or to deal lightly with it is to commit national suicide." He recited the fact that the Communist Party exploits everything that is going on, if it can get into the organization. In answer to a question: "Is it your -27- ‘Hon, W, Guy/SEnister, former Special Agent for the Fedéral it~