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5 # I ! CONF RIAL NY 100-25857 On advised that on that b/, date CLAUDE LIGHTFOOT indicated @ large Negro church in ~/J]> - Chicago desired to have PAUL ROBESON perform a concert although no specific date had been set. The “Daily Worker" issue of February 13, 1957, page 2, column 4, disclosed that CLAUDE LIGHTFOOT was among persons electéd to the National Committee of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) on February 12, 1957, during the 16th National Cenvention > , af the femmirniat Parte fe Vi basil VOM SU CaP oy Ler pe Ti, AFFILIATION WITH THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT A, Evidence of CP Sympathies On aavise and SA | that he had oecasion to talk with i ay ine the period 1925-1947. According to on one oecasion ROBESON stated that while “Communism is not perfect as it exists in Russia, it definitely was working for the betterment of the working man, \ a — ¢ t tL An Thema 19 "orcs BATT DARTMAN t+eaatt ff oA at wn JUNG 2e, A950, PAUL AVODOVA BOS soa ah a special hearing of the United States House of Representatives Sub-Committee of the Committee on Un-American Activities, Washington, D.C., which was SS ee