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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 137 Mr. Hayden. Not to my knowledge. The only two I met that I considered Communists were V. J. Jerome and Joe North. I thought possibly Chase was connected, but I didn't know. Mr. Tavenner. Did you make any connection, or attempt to make any connection, with the underground in Spain after you arrived in Paris ? Mr. Hayden. No. When I went overseas I had two or three letters of introduction from friends of Chase to be used in case I got into Spain. I don't remember what I did with these letters. As soon as 1 got to Paris I was told to get into a jeep and go to Belgium, which I did, and I guess I threw the letters away or burned them; I don't know. Mr. Tavenner. What was the nature of your work in Belgium % Mr. Hayden. OSS detachment, G-2 headquarters. The work at the detachment was in two levels: First, on an operational level, to infiltrate German civilians or German prisoners who had indicated a desire to work with the Allies back through the lines; and the thing I became particularly active in was—Col. B. A. Dickson was anxious to find out if there were any guerrilla anti-Nazi elements that were liberated as we went along that we could contact. I had a team of six or eight men, American Army personnel, who spoke German. We worked together quite closely, and went to Marburg, Germany, which is where we were on VE-day. We didn't meet many anti-Nazis that I remember. To follow chronologically, after VE-day I returned to Paris and was told to take a photographic team, consisting initially of two or three photographers, and make a photographic study of all the ports of northern Europe, including Germany, Denmark, and Norway, which we did. This occupied us for quite a long period of time. We covered almost all of Norway, all of Denmark, all of Germany, and at that time I was sent back to the States and discharged. Mr. Tavenner. During the time of your second assignment on the German front, what was your connection with Capt. Warwick Tomp- kins? Did you continue to obtain Communist literature and propa- ganda from him ? Mr. Hayden. I think I kept in touch with him. I think I kept writing to him. I was still fired up by the Yugoslav thing and so on. I kept up a desultory correspondence with him, and I presume he con- tinued to send me Communist newspapers and literature. I don't remember, actually. Mr. Tavenner. When was your assignment terminated ? Mr. Hayden. Well, let's see. I was discharged the 24th of Decem- ber 1945. I think I returned to the States the end of November. Ac- tually, I tried to find a record of that and couldn't. Mr. Tavenner. What did you do upon arriving in the United States? Mr. Hayden. As soon as I was discharged I sort of cast about for something to do. At that time I remember there were two forces work- ing inside me. One was to go back to sea; and the other was this political thing. At that time, I would like to say—and this is accurate to the best of my recollection—it had never occurred to me to join the Communist Party. It had never occurred to me. It seemed this whole