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October 19, 1964 CyASSIFIED I mue ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED 172 DATE DANNY KA S This Bureau conducted a limited Selective Servicg investigation . concerning Danny Kaye, known also as Daniel Kaye and David Kaminsky, if August, 1944. This investigation was predicated upon receipt of Informatign from two sources who alleged that Danny Kaye, the well-known stage comedian, 'simd. 57C Iated aj >condition which caused him to be rejected for service under. the Selective Service Act.> Our inguiry developed the fact that Danny Kaye successfully. passed his preinduction physical examination on September 27, 1943. Subse- quently, Kaye was unfit for military service. Kaye was processed for induction in the Iatter part of October, 1943. The Induction Station authorities ordered him for observation to a military hospital. After three days of observation in the military hospital, Army doctors advised that Kaye was unfit for military duty. The facts af the investigation were presented to the Uaited States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York who declined prosecution. Subseqaent information appearing in our investigative file reveals that Kaye had affiliation with communist activities in several communist front which has been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450. He had expressed himself publicly as critical of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He participated as a fund raiser anc. was a member af a group who flew to Washington to protest the action of the House Committee on Un-American Activities against the "Hollywood Ten. " The "Hollywood Ten" corgisted of a group of actors and writers who were cited by a congressional eommittee as being subversive and/or members Of the Communist Party. Belmont Mohr DeLoo b71 Caspe (25-251771 and 100-384592) Callana Conrad . Evans NOTE: Per request Mrs. Stegal! White House Staff.