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Highlander Folk School ne Mylea Horton, Director Se Monteagle, Tennessee “ inatruction in labor arganization, social economics, parliamentary procedure and the genereal fid of labor education. This school has had Communist Party members on ite staff as instructors,| and has followed the practice of welcoming Communist Party members as students, but to my knowledge, the school has never offered courses ef tastruction in communist matters nor has the co element ever completely controlled the institution. Another Governmental agency which conducts intelligence investigations has advised that Louis Francois Budens, former editor of the "Dally worker,” an east coast communist newspaper which suspended publication January 13, 1958, end an admitted former of ficial in the Communist Party, advised on November 21, 1952, that the Highlander Folk School was proc onmunist ._ | On April 19, 1949, Paul Crouch, a solf-admitted {former member of the Communist Party, furnished to this Bureau a signed statement in which Geacribed Myles orton as a left wing Soolaliat who was always close to—. e Communist Party. According to this atatenent Horton met With orficials and representatives of the Communist Party to discuss policy and procedure during the period fron 1939 to 1941; and, even though he showed some independence in thought, Horton usually followed the Communist Party line, The statement continues that in 1942 Horton could have | been described az a close sympathirer and follower of the Communiat Party line; and that his wife, Zylphia Horton, . was even closer to the Party than her husband, According to Crouchts statement, when he last saw Zylphia Horton — .. in 1941 she was seriously considering joining the Corsmunist Farty. ous occas i. a i950, Myles Horton ee followed mand paralleied the Communist Party 9? 4 - 2? =» a conf aaTTAL