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JST:JPA/je1 LA 10057129 buy his stores they do not enploy hfg. These periodicalg.. TSCRSLANEOUS MARTIN A. BERKELEY, 1336 North Benedict Canyon Road Los Angeles,. California (4/l0/59). MARrIN A. BERKELEy, a selr-admitted former momber of the cr in New York City and Los Angeles, California, and who has previously testified under oath before the HcuA, on April l0, l959, advised that BRADBuRy was one of the more He also felt BRADBugy was probably sympathetic with certain pro-Communist elements in the WGAw. He stated BRADBURY, during a meeting of Screen writers Guild (Swg), now kmown as WGAw, entered into a discussion of a resolution propounded those writers who had invoked the Fifth Amendment. from becoming members of the Swg.. BERKELEY reported that BRADBURY, during the course of the discussion, rose to his feet and shouted "cowards and Mc Carthyites" when the resolution was discussed. BERKELEY stated it has been his observation that some of the writers suspected of having Communist backgrounds have been writing in the field of science fiction and 1t appears that science fiction may be a lucrative field for the introduction of Communist 1deologies. He noted that some of BRADBuRy's stories have been definitely slanted against the United States and its capitalistic fcrm of Government. LA_T-3:(1/5/59) Informant observed .that Communists have found fertile. opportunities for development; for spreaaing distrust and lack of confidence in America institutions.in the area of science fiction writing. Informant declared that a number of science fiction writers have created illusions with regard to the impossibility of continuing; world affairs in an organized manner now or in the future through the medium of futuristic stories concerned with the. potentialities of science. 8