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I Was a Communist for the FBI Motion Picture — Part 1

70 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Aug 7, 1950 · Broad topic: Cold War & Communism · Topic: I Was a Communist for the FBI Motion Picture · 70 pages OCR'd
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@ Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT __ } to; Mr. wion\h/— 4S DATE: July 1, 1952 - FROM ; MM Ayal yee THES - “aor own Tolson, SUBJECT: Onur was 4 COMMUNIST" RADIO .PROGRAM | tasa_F me JUNE 30, 1952 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED eek 1 oS * STANDARD pom a0, 64 cf too HERED 1S UNCLASG Zum fff DATZ QSOS The . resentation e radi sd : Was _ A Communist," in which Daneeindrews portrayed Matt Cuetic, heard on June 30, 2 . L y Special Agent l Ove Led i 0 Station WRC, ws monitored. b Crime Records Section. i. ip by Cveti Prem NEF. ORNERISt espionage plo; q a e tn the vicinity of Montregl, Canada. N nature concernin i i esentation. Phe episode began with Cuetic traveling to canada tn the Company of @ Russian Secret Police Agent, Mr. Milhigh (phonetic). Cuetic had been furnished the name of one Mr. Ferguson by the F&I as G@ confidential contact in Canada. During the trip Milhigh, in response to a question by Cvetic, startled Cuetic by calling him an FBI Agent. He then made the remark that in the Russian Secret Police work each Agent looked on everyone as a potential FBI Agent. This .e successfu project. Ferguson exhibited pictures of Owlshead workers whom he Suspected and further mentioned that Milhigh might be the logical Russian contact man in this case, While in Canada, Cuetic lived at the Communist Party Head- © quarters and taught classes in a Communist Party school. He was introduced as the Secretary of the Slav Congress in the United States, At the Party Headquarters he observed a young blond girl whom he sus- pected of working for the Party. He discovered that this girl was a Sister of one Paul Verner, and he recognized Verner as one of the Suspected workers at the OQwlshead Project. He subsequently ascer- tained that Verner had: been ‘coerced in Some way into furnishing plant Secrets to the Party and that his Sister was acting as his unwilling No Courter. ; &. te py He reported tht's:dnformation to Ferguson, and it was o Planned that the police officials attempt to get Verner to confess by RECORDED 1 | APSF 2GG1 yg LJHsnof — a NERD «aI 13 m8 1952 NN . Na | :
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