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Tt ———+ P9629 Re ic in the audience here tonight and I am going to ask bim to stand up, aod you decide 1f he de old enough to have testified as Stevenson indicated in the 1520's, Hic birthdate 1g Cetober 3, 1926, So certainly he was not testi- fying cbout the Communist Party when he was two years of age. He only joined th: party in the Go's, 1 c other witnecs they refer to is Paul Crouch. Crouch was an organizer for the Cormgunist Perty and finally broke with the party in 194), and never did testiry before that cate for the government, Ths testimony he gave in this particular case hes mot been made public, but I do have the tectimony which he pave in cther cnecs which was all to the effect that most oF the Comarzets whe are plaguing us today got into the government in the 30's and heve sinte slowly wormed their way into positions cf power, even as Alger Hiss éid. Tity alec cite Cummings. Cummings was Roosevelt's firet Attorney Grneral. Again wheat be testified tu has not been made public. I give you there rather boring details to shew you that Stevenscn was not telling you the truth when h: said that this statement which I read was based en cemnditions which existed twenty years arc. Read the document, pentlemer, here it is. The Dencoret cendidate,in Eis e5-cealled anti-Communist speech in Detroit, bald that it Eisenhower felt there were any Communists still in the povernment dt would mean thet he would have to discharre J, Mager Foover. Let us examine that etatomert. I held in my hand the answer which J. Edger Hoover gave to thet statement long vefore this campaicn started, back in May 26, 1947 -- that was even befcre McCarthyism. He was asked about Communists in governnent. He pointed out the FGT had no power to fire anyone unlecs they worked in the FBI. The Fri's job is to find the facts and report them to the agency in which a particular Communist is employed and hops thet that arency would discharge hin. As ke says on page 41 ef this document which I hold in ry hand. MOSTL. pl OF J, ZDGAs RCOVER. DIRo oe PRoTK oD. BUREAU or abVeSTIGATION March 26, 1947 Ecarings befcre tke Committee on Un-American Activities {page 41) The FBI does not make recommendations: it merely reports facts, and it is up to the interested government department to make a decision. Alnist inveriatly, of course, subjects of investigations deny affiliation with sub- vereive groups, often despite strong evidence to the contrary. The following is a case in point: ¢- ~ 7 33 en dy - jl -