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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 131 The OSS shipped us first to Cairo. We were supposed to go to Greece, but we were shipped to Bari, Italy. I went to Bari, and then began a long term of duty with the Yugoslav partisans there. Mr. Tavenner. What was the general character of your work with Partisans of Yugoslavia? Mr. Hayden. It varied a good deal. They claimed they wanted supplies. The first assignment I had, the first day I arrived in Bari, was to coordinate the handling of a fleet of 28 or 30 schooners. Two weeks later I was placed in charge of the port at Monopoli, Italy. We built up the staff and operated these schooners across the Adriatic. I don't remember the exact dates, but we would frequently go off on reconnaissance expeditions along the coast, along the mainland, trying to get new routes. We got up to Trieste on one trip. Along about the middle of spring Mr. Tavenner. Let me interrupt a minute. Will you go back and try to fix the date when you began your assignment at Bari and took over control of the port of Monopoli ? Mr. Hayden. I would say that was the 1st of December, the first week in December, let me say. Mr. Tavenner. Of what year ? Mr. Hayden. 1942. Mr. Tavenner. And then try, as nearly as you can, to coordinate the narrative with dates. Mr. Hayden. All right, sir. I would say we were in Monopoli 6 weeks to 2 months, and during that period of time I made 2 or 3 reconnaissance expeditions over into Yugoslavia. Mr. Tavenner. What was the purpose of those? Mr. Hayden. To find a more efficient route of supplies to the Parti- san forces in the interior, to get the supplies through the German blockade to the forces fighting in the mountains. Mr. Tavenner. That means you had to pass a German sea blockade as well as a land blockade? Mr. Hayden. Yes, it did. Mr. Tavenner. And your work was behind the German lines ? Mr. Hayden. Yes, it was, particularly later on when we were work- ing in the interior. At that time we were operating along the pe- riphery of the coast, more or less. Before I got in the work on the interior, I was put in command, told to take a small fishing boat and operate it across the Adriatic. We could carry 5 to 6 tons of supplies, medical and other, supplies, into Albania, islands off the Greek coast, and Yugoslavia. I think we made 18 or 20 trips before the E boats patrolling the coast really got wise to what was going on, and it became unhealthy. That operation was abandoned probably early in the summer of 1944. The next step seemed to be to supply them by air, so we were flown in to various places in Bosnia, in Slovenia—I beg pardon. We never could get into Slovenia by air, so we were ordered to march into Slo- venia. We had guides and they would take us through swamps where there was no liaison, and we tried to lay out an airfield to bring sup- plies through. Mr. Tavenner. How long did you continue in your work with the underground in Yugoslavia ? Mr. Hayden. Until late in November of that year, when I was sent home for a 30-day leave in the States. 81595—51—pt. 1 6